Word: bedridden
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Indicative of the enthusiasm in the wards was the idea of having cots at the game for the definitely bedridden, as reported last night over the telephone to the CRIMSON by an unidentified patient, "J. J. Burp...
...sixty-eighth year, Mr. Perkins had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December...
...with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky." On a spring day in 1880 Colonel Pargiter leaves his club to pay a visit to his cockney mistress, then home to his family: his bedridden, dying wife, his children...
Eleanor, the oldest daughter, runs the house, with social service as a sparetime hobby. At Oxford, the eldest son, Edward, spins the beginnings of a sound career, sometimes daydreams about his pretty cousin Kitty, only daughter of the head of his college. At last bedridden Mrs. Pargiter dies. And now it is 1891. Kitty is married, but not to Edward, who has become...
...doctors concluded that a blood-filled tumor had developed on the outer layer of the brain. The skull was trephined, clotted blood removed from the left side of the cranial cavity, bloody spinal fluid from the right. Later, the patient seemed like a person with no brain at all. Bedridden, apathetic, twitching spasmodically, she died...