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Discover LudwigThe phrase "become bedridden" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in situations where you want to describe someone who has been confined to bed due to illness or injury. Example sentence: After the accident, her grandmother was forced to become bedridden.
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As the novel opens, he has become bedridden after breaking his ankle in a fall.
Patients are sometimes unable to move and become bedridden, occasionally having to be fed through a tube.
But as soon as they become infected, or at least become bedridden and sick, they are dumped in a ditch — sometimes literally.
However, after hip fracture, patients often have reduced walking ability compared with before injury, and some may even become bedridden or die [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11].
In a population of aging with low birth rate, many elderly become bedridden because of their suffering from injuries or diseases that require a long period to heal and rehab.
Table 4 illustrates the percentage of answers to the question, "If you are informed by any of your implant patients that they cannot visit your clinic because they have become bedridden, how do you address this?".
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Eventually Lean's health got so bad that he became bedridden.
But her health problems intensified, and after the war she became bedridden with rheumatism.
'I was unable to do anything for myself and became bedridden.
Not long after her blank moment in the kitchen, she has an unsuccessful operation and becomes bedridden.
In 1893, however, his grandfather was sentenced to prison for examination fraud, and his father became bedridden.
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