ventricumbent

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English

Adjective

ventricumbent (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Lying face-down.
    • 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat, page 376:
      Place the cat ventricumbent with a block between the arms and under the neck, so that the structures on the dorsal part of the body may be somewhat tense.