病床

びょうしょう

Also written 病牀

Meanings

1. Noun, の-adjective sickbed; (hospital) bed

Kanji

• 病 illness. Read as ビョウ.
• 床 floor. Read as ショウ.

Example sentences

• まだ彼は病床にある。
  He is still on his back.
• 私が見舞いに行ったときいとこは１週間病床にいた。
  My cousin had been sick in bed for a week when I visited him.
• 彼女は急いで彼の病床へ駆けつけた。
  She came hurrying to his bedside.
• 百万以上の老人が病床にある。
  More than a million old people are sick in bed.
• 療養病床が減ればそれができず、一般病床の医療にも支障をきたします。
  If long-term beds are reduced, then it won't be possible to do that and normal sickbeds will also be adversely affected.

Common phrases

• 病床にある
• 病床に伏す
• 病床を持つ

Words containing 病床

• 病床日誌 (びょうしょうにっし) day-by-day record of a patient's condition
• 療養病床 (りょうようびょうしょう) long term care bed
• 病床使用率 (びょうしょうしようりつ) hospital bed occupancy rate

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