Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

recumbence en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
    • anal recumbence
    • supine recumbence
    • lateral recumbence
    • With stable fixation, the length of time the patient needs to be prevented from recumbence can be reduced. 2022, Ian Wright, Fractures in the Horse, page 589:
    • sternal recumbence
    • “Just—” Jon heaved again. He looked like a child’s flatdoll on the smooth green floor, his body too oval from long recumbence, so that his face grimaced out of his sternum. 2011, Charlie Jane Anders, The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model:
    • the Sound […] can usually be itensified by […] change of position, especially from recumbence to sitting; […] 1897, William Colby Goodno, The Practice of Medicine, volume 2, page 38:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
recumbences Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

recumbency