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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bedsore
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If a patient has a bedsore and is incontinent the frequent changing of sheets and incontinence pads might be regarded as nursing.
▪ She was so thin now that the bedsores felt as if they were welded to bone.
▪ The collapse of her immune system means even her bedsores are infected.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedsore

Bedsore \Bed"sore`\, n. (Med.) A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

Wiktionary
bedsore

n. (context usually in plural English) A lesion caused by unrelieved pressure to any part of the body, especially portions over bony or cartilaginous areas, such as frequently develops on a person confined to a bed by infirmity.

WordNet
bedsore

n. a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients) [syn: pressure sore, decubitus ulcer]

Usage examples of "bedsore".

She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.

Across the state, old and disabled patients have been found half-starved, consumed by bedsores, crippled by undiagnosed bone fractures.

She was not going to sit those bedsores on the chair that had put them there.

She felt much better this morning though, a little weak, a bit bedsore after being confined for two days, but the constant heat that she had been living with was gone.

The paralytic ileus, the stress ulcers, hypotension and bradycardia, bedsores turning into decubitus ulcers, contractures as the muscle tissue began to shrink and threatened to steal away the precious mobility of his finger, the infuriating phantom pain—burns and aches in extremities that could feel no sensation.

The paralytic ileus, the stress ulcers, hypotension and bradycardia, bedsores turning into decubitus ulcers, contractures as the muscle tissue began to shrink and threatened to steal away the precious mobility of his finger, the infuriating phantom pain-burns and aches in extremities that could feel no sensation.

The paralytic ileus, the stress ulcers, hypotension and bradycardia, bedsores turning into decubitus ulcers, contractures as the muscle tissue began to shrink and threatened to steal away the precious mobility of his finger, the infuriating phantom pain—.