Definition of "bedsides" [bedsides]

• Plural form of bedside. (noun)

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• "Why pack up and go to the rubble and muck of tent cities or the bedsides of people dying from cholera?"
• "But some health professionals argue that compiling data takes too much time away from patients' bedsides."
• "Gay and lesbian Americans are "uniquely affected" by the relatives-only policy at hospitals, Obama said, adding that they "are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives - unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated.""