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.
病床に伏す。
To be confined to a sickbed.
病床の祖父を見舞いに行った。
I went to visit my bedridden grandfather.
この病院は病床数が五百を超える大きな施設だ。
This hospital is a large facility with more than 500 beds.
Compound noun: 病 (illness) + 床 (bed). Note that 床 uses the on'yomi reading here, not the kun'yomi 床.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 病床に伏す (to take to one's sickbed)
- 病床数 (number of hospital beds)
- 病床から離れる (to leave one's sickbed, to recover)