medbed

noun

medbed

noun

Etymology Short for medical bed.

1

Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A bed equipped with technology for medical diagnosis and treatment.

  • 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.2012, John Joseph Adams, Armored:
  • 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.2013, Maggi O'Mally, Aurorae II, page 161:
2 more examples
  • She was lying on a medbed and only clad in her black jumpsuit. Her armor, helmet and pack were gone.2014, Rhiannon Frater, The Last Mission of the Living:
  • Dante snapped his fingers and Damon appeared with a medbed. "As you can see he is the patient."2020, Serena Simpson, Keriann McKenna, Mick:
Related terms
biobed

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