retiring to bed (esp. due to illness)
Obsolete term for taking to one's bed, especially when sick. The modern equivalent is 臥床 (がしょう).
See also: 臥床
In old texts, one can find the expression 'to take to one's bed due to illness' using 臥褥.
Obsolete term for a bed or bedding. Replaced by 寝床 or ベッド in modern Japanese.
臥褥 was used as a word for old-style bedding.
Obsolete kanji form; the character 褥 is not in common use. The variant 臥蓐 is search-only.
Search-only variant; 蓐 is a rare character for bedding.
Compound of 臥 (ga, 'lie down') and 褥 (joku, 'mattress, bedding'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is now obsolete.