adjective. Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity.

Confined to bed by age, infirmity, or sickness.

adjective. confined to bed because of infirmity or illness

adjective. confined to bed (by illness)

"I have had, in my short practice, two patients, who considered themselves _bedlars_, as you will find the common people in the part you are going to, call them -- bedridden, that is."

ill  sick  

15-day  becalmed  bed-ridden  bent-backed  broken-hearted  

bedbound  bedfast