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ventricumbent

ventricumbent adjective: lying face-down.

Adjective

ventricumbent (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Lying face-down.
    • 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.1882, Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat, page 376

Questions about ventricumbent

What does ventricumbent mean?
Ventricumbent means lying face-down.
What part of speech is ventricumbent?
Ventricumbent is an adjective.

Words near ventricumbent in the dictionary

  1. ventriculotomies
  2. ventriculotomy
  3. ventriculous
  4. ventriculoventricular
  5. ventriculus
  6. ventricumbent
  7. ventriduct
  8. ventrifixation
  9. ventrifixations
  10. ventriflexion
  11. ventrilateral

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