bedridden person
Perpetually horizontal individual
A bedridden person is someone confined to bed by illness, injury, or infirmity.
The phrase emphasizes the human rather than the condition: caring for a bedridden person requires patience.
It often appears in medical or caregiving contexts where the focus is on the individual's needs rather than their diagnosis.
- invalidWithout legal force
- patientAble to wait calmly
- confinedKept within bounds
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- homeboundConfined to one's residence
bed rest · sickbed · sick room · illness · weakness · caregiver · nurse · visiting nurse · home health aide · pillows · sheets · bedpan · wheelchair · frail · ailing · recuperating · feeble · incapacitated
- invalidsinvalid, invalids, infirm, incapacitated, patient
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
- victimsvictim, victims, casualty, survivors, fatality
- relaxerssleeper, napper, lounger, sunbather, daydreamer