bedside
bedside
Definition
bed·side (-sīd′)
noun
the side of a bed; space beside a bed a nurse at his bedside
adjective
- near a bed a bedside table
- as regards patients a doctor's bedside manner
bedside
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- leave: There may be certain times when your visitors are asked to leave the bedside and wait in the waiting room.
Adjective modifier
- patient: Deliver TV to patient bedsides to improve the health care environment.
- own: It must be hard seeing the character you honed at your own children's bedsides being changed by others, however subtly and however successfully.
Modifies a noun
- cabinet: With single bed, bedside cabinet, chest of drawers.
- locker: I lie without moving, desperately wanting to put out a hand into the night to feel for the flashlight on my bedside locker.
- lamp: Two small chest of drawers, bedside lamps, built in cupboard.
- table: The control box is placed on the bedside table, with the sensor pad being placed under the mattress.
- vigil: Little Mo maintains a bedside vigil at the hospital.
- drawer: I have now worked out how to trap it inside my bedside drawers to wear it at night.
Noun used with modifier
- drawer: These two are taller and narrower than the 3 drawer bedside cabinet and the Pot Cupboard & drawer.
- hospital: In fact there were times she spent the whole night at his hospital bedside urging him on.
- pine: All our solid pine bedside cabinets come with turned beech hardwood handles for extra strength and durability.
- patient: Here, nursing staff and clinicians work together where it matters at the patients bedside, to direct and manage patient care.
- in-patient: The mean percentage of in-patient bedside ' fallers ' in 2002 was 14.9 % .
Possessives
- patient: Benefits advice at the patient's bedside Job Center Plus now provide a new service at the Royal Free.
- father: These serenely abstract images form a counterpoint to the haunting final photographs made at his father's bedside.
- mother: By mother's bedside lay the last book I had bought her.
- child: Don't feel you need to be by your child's bedside all the time.
- husband: Because you came along I made it to my dying husband's bedside before he passed away.
Preposition: of
