bedfast
- s confined to bed (by illness)
- The disease of the large bowel that kept Secretary John Foster Dulles bedfast in Walter Reed Army Hospital last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was considered rare until the turn of .
- Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give.
- The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.