WordNet
n. a single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required
Wikipedia
A hospital bed or hospital cot is a bed specially designed for hospitalized patients or others in need of some form of health care. These beds have special features both for the comfort and well-being of the patient and for the convenience of health care workers. Common features include adjustable height for the entire bed, the head, and the feet, adjustable side rails, and electronic buttons to operate both the bed and other nearby electronic devices.
Hospital beds and other similar types of beds are used not only in hospitals, but in other health care facilities and settings, such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities, outpatient clinics, and in home health care.
While the term "hospital bed" can refer to the actual bed, the term "bed" is also used to describe the amount of space in a health care facility, as the capacity for the number of patients at the facility is measured in available "beds."
Usage examples of "hospital bed".
It is not so easy, lying here in this scrubbed hospital bed under a glass peephole with Bruno's eye in it, to give a picture of the smoke clouds that rose from Kashubian potato fires or of the slanting October rain.
At one point he put up a slide of a famous James Thurber cartoon, of a male doctor leering over the headboard of a hospital bed at a female patient.
If she was still alive, she was gasping in a hospital bed somewhere.
Letting patients' relatives decide when to vacate a hospital bed wasn't a concept he was used to.
But she was his now, and as she lay on the hospital bed talking to him, he smiled at the sight of her enormous stomach.