Meanings
adjectiveventricumbent (not comparable)
- formalnot comparableLying 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
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