病床(びょうしょう)

びょうしょう
noun
sickbed; hospital bed
health
1. sickbed; hospital bed
A bed for a patient, either in a hospital or at home. Also used figuratively to refer to the state of being ill and bedridden.
病床(びょうしょう)に伏(ふ)す。
To be confined to a sickbed.
I went to visit my bedridden grandfather.
This hospital is a large facility with more than 500 beds.

Compound noun: 病(びょう) (illness) + 床(しょう) (bed). Note that 床(しょう) uses the on'yomi reading here, not the kun'yomi 床(とこ).

Common collocations

  • 病床(びょうしょう)に伏(ふ)す (to take to one's sickbed)
  • 病床(びょうしょう)数(すう) (number of hospital beds)
  • 病床(びょうしょう)から離(はな)れる (to leave one's sickbed, to recover)