medbed

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."

Related terms

• biobed