medbed

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English

Etymology

Short for medical bed.

Noun

medbed (plural medbeds)

  1. (science fiction) A bed equipped with technology for medical diagnosis and treatment.
    • 2012, John Joseph Adams, Armored:
      On either side of the medbed I was in, and on the other side of the long, narrow room, other medbeds stretched in long rows. I couldn't make them out well, though, and I remembered they had added distortion fields to medbeds to give patients privacy.
    • 2013, Maggi O'Mally, Aurorae II, page 161:
      That might work. Call the Aurorae and have a medbed waiting in your prep room. If we can offload them on medbeds, we can load them the same way.
    • 2014, Rhiannon Frater, The Last Mission of the Living:
      She was lying on a medbed and only clad in her black jumpsuit. Her armor, helmet and pack were gone.
    • 2020, Serena Simpson, Keriann McKenna, Mick:
      Dante snapped his fingers and Damon appeared with a medbed. "As you can see he is the patient."
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