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A shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
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bedpan
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A bedpan or bed pan is a receptacle used for the toileting of a bedridden patient in a health care facility, and is usually made of metal, glass, ceramic, or plastic. A bedpan can be used for both urinary and fecal discharge. Many diseases can confine a ...
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Bedpan \Bed"pan`\, n. A pan for warming beds. --Nares. A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
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n. A variety of chamber pot that is used while still in bed, generally for reasons of medical necessity or convenience
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n. a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
Usage examples of bedpan.
Things he could do for himself, such as getting on the bedpan, he wanted the nurses to do for him.
Earlier in the war, he had emptied the bedpans of men who had been in combat.
All the same, she was kept occupied, answering bells, repacking dressings, giving drinks and bedpans, propping two cases for theatre in the morning.
In the far corner, opposite the table and window, a door led to a storeroom, filled with paintings and canvases, chairs, chests, dishes, bedpans, a coat rack and a row of books.
The smell of beeswax furniture polish, and of wilted chrysanthemums, and the lingering aroma of bedpan and disinfectant.
I could do this number with my boot in a bedpan and my butt in a cane chair, even supposing this thingie shows.
She insisted on having someone in attendance, and that in the middle of the bedpan round.
Lifting the lid off the top one, I recognized the dull green bedpan shapes at once.
She'd resisted all attempts to get her on her feet, balked at nourishment, refused to use a bedpan, pulled out catheters and feeding tubes, flung her pills at the nurses, and sabotaged her physical therapy.
He strolls unseen down a corridor, past a parked gumey with a bedpan on it, past a pair of laughing, talking nurses who are looking at photographs, passing them from hand to hand, and toward that droning voice.
I've looked into them-a couple of junior colleges where the big majors are sheet metal, auto mechanics, and bedpan repair, and a big Catholic university where they pee their pants over basketball and theology.
She shined the light over a profusion of disabled wooden wheelchairs, dented bedpans, and broken hospital furniture.