NOUN
- a chronic ulcer of the skin caused by prolonged pressure on it (as in bedridden patients)
How To Use bedsore In A Sentence
- She was covered in bedsores from her shoulders to her toes. Times, Sunday Times
- Some 1,446 died suffering with pressure ulcers, otherwise know as bedsores, while 4,866 died with septicaemia, or blood poisoning. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- And if bedsores are left unattended, she tells me, they can get so bad you can put your fist in them.
- He was in so much pain when he left that he immediately had to go into St Luke's Hospital for treatment for horrific bedsores.
- They will have to watch a short video outlining how they can keep clear of infections, bedsores and blood clots. The Sun
- Most alarmingly, they weren't turning his limbs every two hours, as they should have done, to prevent bedsores. Times, Sunday Times
- Pressure ulcers, or bedsores, are caused by excessive or prolonged pressure on the skin.
- Many had bedsores and ulcers, the result, in some cases, of being put in the wrong sort of bed. Times, Sunday Times
- The 33 members now have their sights set on syringe drivers to help deliver medication more easily, as well as special air mattresses to help prevent patients from getting bedsores.
- It has controls that allow me to move it and myself into a sitting position and a special air-filled mattress attached to a pump so that I don't get bedsores from laying in one place for too long.