ventricumbent
English edit
Adjective edit
ventricumbent (not comparable)
- (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.