bedrail
nounEtymology From bed + rail.
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A rail at the head, foot, or side of a bed.
- As long as surfaces in hospitals are contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria, doctors’ and nurses’ hands become recontaminated seconds after washing and gloving, as soon as they pull open a privacy curtain to see the next patient or touch a bedrail.2008 May 26, “Deadly Infections”, in New York Times: