(v. i.) Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Acutely ill dehydrated patients were female (OR, 3.3); over 85 years old (OR, 2.2); had more than four chronic conditions (OR, 4.0); took more than four medications (OR, 2.8); and were bedridden (OR, 2.9).
(3) After suffering a severe form of ME which left her bedridden and unable to speak or feed herself for all of her adolescent and adult life, she had decided she was never going to recover, and wanted to ensure her life would end before total degeneration robbed her of all dignity.
(4) 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.
(5) Six of these signs--polyphasic cycle of waking and sleeping, urinary incontinence, being bedridden and being tube fed etc--were important criteria of the vegetative syndrome.
(6) One infected patient was bedridden, and his only known Hib contact was the nurse.
(7) Pseudoobstruction of the colon is not a rare complication of elderly, sick, bedridden patients.
(8) His bedridden mother stumbled to her feet Tuesday to pray at the altar set up where he slept.
(9) The main advantages are: small risk, investigation of ambulatory and bedridden patients.
(10) Just two weeks ago McDaniel, a 41-year-old state senator with a deeply conservative record, was considered doomed after four of his supporters were arrested over a plot to smear Cochran by photographing his bedridden wife in the nursing home where she lives and posting the images on the internet.
(11) A study has been made of the effect of head-up tilt on blood pressure, heart rate, forearm blood flow and occluded vein pressure in the hand and foot in non-bedridden patients with chronic, closed, complete, localized traumatic transection of the cervical spinal cord.2.
(12) Calcium and creatinine concentrations were analyzed in urine samples of 42 chronically institutionalized bedridden children, with neurologic disorders.
(13) Histology may wrongly suggest primary hyperparathyroidism, but patients with Paget's disease have no hypercalcaemia unless they are bedridden.
(14) They clean the toilet with chlorine every day, but all the same, the apartment, with its piles of dirty clothes and a bedridden grandmother, "doesn't smell like camomile", Zhenya admits.
(15) As a result of the instability of the spinal column, most of the patients are bedridden and in great pain.
(16) The circulatory behaviour of patients, completely bedridden for several months, was observed during orthostatic tilt-table exercise over a period of at least 7 weeks.
(17) In December 1989, she gradually deteriorated due to the regrowth of the intraventricular metastatic lesion, and now she is bedridden.
(18) No rehabilitation was needed or possible for 40% of the patients; 299 (20%) patients were chairbound or bedridden and 400 (27%) were totally dependent on nursing and 587 (40%) partly dependent.
(19) Bedridden individuals should use petrolatum, whereas the ambulatory would be better served by the use of lotions and creams.
(20) The advantages are, above all, the simple and less hazardous examination technique, the possibility of examination on an outpatient basis, examination despite anticoagulant therapy, and especially of examining bedridden patients eg in the ward.
Confine
Definition:
(v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
(v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
(n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
(3) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(4) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(6) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
(7) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
(8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
(9) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(10) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
(11) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(13) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(14) At an ultrastructural level, 15-1 immunogold-labeling in the epidermis was confined to the surface of cells exhibiting Birbeck granules.
(15) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
(16) Three patients were confined to a wheelchair after 3 years of follow-up.
(17) This observation confirms that idiotypic recognition is confined to a limited number of clonal products, despite the fact that a very heterogeneous antibody population was used forthe anti-idiotypic immunization.
(18) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
(19) Thus definitive evidence of fetal infection confined to red cell precursors is documented.
(20) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.