medbed n.

a bed equipped with technology providing medical monitoring, diagnosis, or treatment

Also medibed.

  • [1975 San Diego Union 20 June 14 (caption)

    Charles Hall, a San Francisco engineer who developed the first waterbed, takes a look at one of the newer designs, a MediBed, at waterbed trade show. ]

  • 1987 R. Goulart Daredevils, Ltd. ii. 12 page image Ron Goulart bibliography

    At the moment each was in traction in a floating multicare medbed.

  • 1989 P. Timms Darkness Into Light in IDIC (Log 4) 37 page image

    ‘It can’t be the computer,’ said a new, weaker voice from the medibed.

  • 1990 J. A. Corrick Honky Tonk Man in The Gate (#3) Dec. 11/1 page image James A. Corrick bibliography

    Inside, featureless walls loomed, looking on men and women wrapped in the thin membranes of their medbeds. Tubes and monitor wires kept the body alive and the muscles from completely attophying [sic].

  • 1998 S. L. Wachowski Grandpa in Chicon 2000 (program, 58th Worldcon) 20/1 page image

    He lay on a medbed, propped up slightly and pushing buttons on the Vid remote.

  • 2009 M. L. Van Name Overthrowing Heaven 103 page image Mark L. Van Name bibliography

    Images of Jennie boarding the ship that would take her, my sister and first friend, away from me—a scene I’d never witnessed but had imagined so many times it was now more vivid than many of my real memories—morphed into slow-motion video streams of faceless, white-suited jailers strapping Joachim onto medbeds poised to inject him.

  • 2010 D. J. Williams The Machinery of Light 116 page image David J. Williams bibliography

    Plastic medbeds, looking disconcertingly like trays, are stacked upon one another, ten per each two meters of corridor.

  • 2017 J. O’Reilly Blue Shift xxvi. 249 page image Jane O'Reilly bibliography

    ‘He needs a medic and a medibed,’ he said to the receptionist, shoving aside the Dome woman who stood in his way. ‘Now.’

  • 2021 J. Werkheiser Kepler’s Laws in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Nov.–Dec. 139/1 Jay Werkheiser bibliography

    She turned her back on the others and leaned over Emily’s medbed. Telemetry showed she was sleeping. [Ibid. 150/2] She was just going to rot here, in this medbed, while others got treatment.

Research requirements

antedating 1989
Research History
Suggested, and many cites submitted, by Bill Mullins.

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