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Gatch bed

n :  HOSPITAL BED
 
Gatch, Willis Dew (1878-1954),
American surgeon. Gatch did research in experimental and clinical surgery, shock occurring during or after a surgical operation, burns, and diseases of the biliary passages. He introduced his hospital bed in 1909.
 
 

 
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