monkey pole
Medicine slang
noun
A horizontal bar suspended above a bed, which a patient may grasp to aid mobility.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in John James Walsh (1917–1992).
- deathbed
- death bell
- death benefit
- death bill
- death bird
- death blast
- death blow
- death bone
- death by misadventure
- death camas
- death camp
- death candle
- death cap
- death-cart
- death cell
- death certificate
- death chair
- death chamber
- death cloth
- death control
- death cord
- death cup
- death dance
- death day
- death-dealing