recumbency
- a word derived from recumbent.
Example Sentences
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"All right," he said, and rose slowly from sprawling recumbency to his feet.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
In attempting to assume the perpendicular, Mr. Brown Bunkem was signally frustrated, as the result was a more perfect development of his original horizontal recumbency, assumed at the conclusion of a very vigorous fall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 by Various
He suffered himself to be pushed into recumbency on the couch, and put his head with docility on the pillow she brought from the spare room.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
I could not help comparing the annoyance of this involuntary dance with the after-guard, this croissez with clattering buckets, and dos à dosing with wet swabs, with my comfortable and commanding recumbency upon the cross-trees.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick
As to enforced recumbency I doubt the propriety of insisting on it in the majority of cases, for I think the patient usually assumes whatever position gives most comfort.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
