What's the difference between bed and decubitus?

Bed


Definition:

  • (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
  • (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
  • (n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
  • (n.) A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
  • (n.) The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
  • (n.) A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
  • (n.) See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
  • (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
  • (n.) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
  • (n.) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
  • (n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
  • (n.) The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
  • (n.) The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
  • (n.) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
  • (v. t.) To place in a bed.
  • (v. t.) To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
  • (v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
  • (v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
  • (v. t.) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
  • (v. t.) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed; to cohabit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (3) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
  • (4) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
  • (5) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
  • (6) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
  • (7) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
  • (8) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
  • (9) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
  • (10) Using nursing home and hospital medical records, we performed a case-control study to identify risk factors for death from LRI among residents of a 110-bed, midwestern community nursing home.
  • (11) These results indicate, that there is no autoregulation in the hyperemizied capillary bed.
  • (12) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
  • (13) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
  • (14) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
  • (15) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  • (16) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
  • (17) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
  • (18) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
  • (19) Biomicroscopic studies performed in anesthetized white rats revealed the increase in the cortex mass and the formation of microcirculatory bed as the main factors in microcirculation development.
  • (20) In 9 women with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) and in 11 control subjects at the follicular phase of the normal cycle, blood samples were collected at 15-min intervals during a 2 h period of bed rest for the assay of beta-endorphin, beta-lipotropin, corticotropin, cortisol and prolactin.

Decubitus


Definition:

  • (n.) An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal decubitus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) In a double-blind fashion, all patients received 3 ml (7.5 mg) of either solution in the lateral decubitus position with the operated side up, the table being kept horizontal for 30 minutes after injection.
  • (4) In nine normal subjects duplicate measurements were made in the erect (seated), supine, and lateral decubitus posture, at a constant tidal volume (700 ml) and frequency (1 Hz) starting from functional residual capacity (FRC).
  • (5) The repair of decubitus ulcers in paraplegic patients often requires a prolonged stay in hospital and multiple operations, since the lesions are frequently multiple.
  • (6) IN EXAMINATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE, SHORTENED TRANSIT TIME AND IMPROVED QUALITY WERE ACHIEVED BY USING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OF REGIMEN: 1, No laxative; 2, nothing by mouth for 8 hours before examination; 3, 600 ml of micropulverized barium sulfate; 4, patient to lie in right decubitus position for at least one hour between films; and 5, ingestion of 200 ml of cool tap water a half hour after the start of the examination.
  • (7) Bacteriological examinations of decubitus ulcers were performed in 34 geriatric patients.
  • (8) Patients were tested in the sitting and right and left decubitus positions with and without the application of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP).
  • (9) The only absolute contra-indication to urinary diversion is decubitus ulceration.
  • (10) A hemicorporectomy was successfully employed for control of intractable decubitus ulcers, osteomyelitis, and low-grade epidermoid cancer in a 55-year-old man marked reduction in pulmonary functions.
  • (11) These jugular abnormalities were exaggerated in the left lateral decubitus position.
  • (12) Our data did not show intracardiac aspiration to be superior to either external cardiac massage of left lateral decubitus position despite the shorter resuscitation time.
  • (13) Through the indwelling catheters or decubitus SA on the skin could cause easily severe systemic MRSA infections such as sepsis or endocarditis of in-patients.
  • (14) The radiology and emergency medicine literature have emphasized the value of the cross-table decubitus chest film taken with the hemithorax containing the suspected pathology in the dependent position.
  • (15) Infections of skin structure, particularly decubitus ulcers in debilitated, bedridden patients, are due to a mixed gram-negative and anaerobic flora; frequently, P. aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae resistant to many older agents are the major pathogens.
  • (16) To achieve this aim, alpha and beta adrenergic receptors were measured in biopsies obtained from intact skin used to surgically repair decubitus ulcers in SCI patients admitted to The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research.
  • (17) The treatment of venous air embolism was compared in adult mongrel dogs utilizing left lateral decubitus position, external cardiac massage, and intracardiac aspiration of air.
  • (18) The patients performed: 1) postural drainage with thoracic expansion exercises + forced expiration technique (FET) in the left decubitus position; 2) positive expiratory pressure (PEP)-mask breathing + FET; and 3) physical exercise on a bicycle ergometer + FET.
  • (19) Key features of a new technique for the closed reduction of both posttraumatic and artificial posteriorly dislocated hips include the lateral decubitus position, exaggeration of the deformity (hip flexion 100 degrees, internal rotation to 45 degrees, adduction to 45 degrees), palpation of the dislocated femoral head and greater trochanter and gravity-assisted reduction, utilizing a simultaneous push-pull maneuver.
  • (20) Either finding should lead to a prompt cross-table lateral or decubitus study to confirm the diagnosis and allow estimation of the size of the pneumothorax.

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