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Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κατάκλισις (katáklisis) with -ση (-si) ending and possible semantic loan from English decubitus ulcer.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈta.kli.si/
- Hyphenation: κα‧τά‧κλι‧ση
Noun
κατάκλιση • (katáklisi) f (plural κατακλίσεις)
- (learned) lying down, recumbence, recumbency
- (medicine) decubitus (the posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining)
- (learned, nautical) careening (the act of heaving a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line)
- (medicine) Ellipsis of έλκος κατάκλισης n (élkos katáklisis, “bedsore, decubitus ulcer, pressure sore, pressure ulcer”).
Declension
Older or formal genitive singular: κατακλίσεως (kataklíseos)
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