OriginNamed after Willis Dew Gatch.
- transitiveTo arrange (a patient's bed) so that its sections bend at the joints, to assist blood flow etc.
“If the bed is to be gatched, the board must be hinged, or two or more boards must be used with breaks correctly placed.”
“Answer 1 is incorrect because gatching the bed in the area of the knees reduces venous return.”
- uncountableA form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.
Formsgatches(present, singular, third-person) · gatching(participle, present) · gatched(participle, past) · gatched(past) · Gatches(plural)
Source: Wiktionary