ventricumbent

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.

Related terms

• recumbent
• ventral