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Japanese-style futon s laid out for sleeping in a ryokan (inn). In green, three shikibuton s per bed; in red, turned-back kakebuton s. The top two futons in each stack are covered in white fitted sheets, matching the pillowslips. A futon is a traditional Japanese style of bedding.
Betty Bryant lying down and reading letters Painting of a lying woman. Lying – also called recumbency, prostration, or decubitus in medicine (from Latin decumbo 'to lie down') – is a type of human position in which the body is more or less horizontal and supported along its length by the surface underneath.
A postcard of a woman on a beach in prone position. In anatomy, the prone position is a position of the human body lying face down.It is opposed to the supine position which is face up.
A bed of nails is an oblong piece of wood, the size of a bed, with nails pointing upwards out of it. [1] While it appears at first glance that anyone lying on such a "bed" would be injured by the nails, if the nails are numerous enough, the weight is distributed among them so that the pressure exerted by each nail is not enough to puncture the ...
A rope bed without its mattresses etc. A rope bed is a type of platform bed in which the sleeper (and mattress) is supported by a lattice of rope, rather than wooden slats. In cold climates, a rope bed would be topped with one or more insulating pailasses or bedticks, which would traditionally be stuffed with straw, chaff, or down feathers. It ...
Lying-in is the term given to the European [citation needed] forms of postpartum confinement, the traditional practice involving long bed rest before [1] and after giving birth. The term and the practice it describes are old-fashioned or archaic , but lying-in used to be considered an essential component of the postpartum period , even if there ...
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Perforated bricks have holes through the brick from bed to bed, cutting it all the way. Most of the building standards and good construction practices recommend the volume of holes should not exceed 20% of the total volume of the brick. [7] Parts of brickwork include bricks, beds and perpends. The bed is the mortar upon which a brick is laid. [8]