How do you use Bedrest in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like rest or ease, plus the exact meaning.
Bedrest meaning
- A device used to support a person sitting up in bed.
- Confinement to bed, often under instructions of a physician, in order to recover from an injury, an illness, or the frailty associated with other physical discomforts such as a difficult pregnancy.
Synonyms of Bedrest
Using Bedrest
- The main meaning on this page is: A device used to support a person sitting up in bed. | Confinement to bed, often under instructions of a physician, in order to recover from an injury, an illness, or the frailty associated with other physical discomforts such as a difficult pregnancy.
- Useful related words include: bed rest, rest, ease, repose.
Context around Bedrest
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bedrest
- In this selection, "bedrest" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include strength and bedrest in the and weeks of bedrest. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bedrest" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bedrest
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The delivery led to life-threatening complications that required five surgeries and six weeks of bedrest. (16 words)
All they could offer was aspirin, morphine and quinine to suppress the symptoms; fluids and nourishment to keep up their patients’ strength; and bedrest in the hope that the victims would beat the bug themselves. (35 words)
All they could offer was aspirin, morphine and quinine to suppress the symptoms; fluids and nourishment to keep up their patients’ strength; and bedrest in the hope that the victims would beat the bug themselves. (35 words)
The delivery led to life-threatening complications that required five surgeries and six weeks of bedrest. (16 words)
Example sentences (2)
All they could offer was aspirin, morphine and quinine to suppress the symptoms; fluids and nourishment to keep up their patients’ strength; and bedrest in the hope that the victims would beat the bug themselves.
The delivery led to life-threatening complications that required five surgeries and six weeks of bedrest.