(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.
Infirmity
Definition:
(a.) The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
(a.) A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
(2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
(6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
(7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
(8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
(10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
(12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
(13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
(14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
(15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
(16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
(17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
(18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
(19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
(20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.