reclination

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English

Etymology

Compare French réclinaison.

Noun

reclination (countable and uncountable, plural reclinations)

  1. The act of leaning or reclining.
  2. The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
  3. (surgery) Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.[1]

References

  1. ^
    1839, Robley Dunglison, “RECLINATION”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, , 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC:
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