bedpan

English

Etymology

From bed +‎ pan ("chamber pot").

Noun

bedpan (plural bedpans)

1. A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.

   The nurse emptied the patient's bedpan each morning.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:chamber pot

Translations

chamber pot used while still in bed

• Bulgarian: подлога (bg) (podloga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便盆 (zh) (biànpén)

• Danish: bækken (da) n
• Dutch: ondersteek (nl) m
• Finnish: alusastia (fi)
• French: bassin hygiénique m
• German: Steckbecken n, Stechbecken n, Schieber (de) m, Bettschüssel f, Bettpfanne f
• Greek: πάπια (el) f (pápia), ουροδοχείο (el) n (ourodocheío)
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• Hungarian: ágytál (hu)
• Japanese: (差し込み) 便器 (べんき, benki), おまる (omaru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bekken (no) n

  Nynorsk: bekken n

• Portuguese: comadre (pt) f
• Russian: су́дно (ru) n (súdno), у́тка (ru) f (útka)