recumbency
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Sayre, too, by his suspension treatment and the plaster-of-Paris jacket, set the hunchback on his feet at a stage in his disease in which before he had been forced to prolonged and painful recumbency.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by Lord, John
Even then, although improved in color, flesh, and blood condition, she had to attain an erect station almost as slowly as she had had to reach recumbency.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.
Mr Blenkiron, having finished his after-dinner recumbency, had sat up and pulled a small table towards him.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
Some writers state that it may be produced by confining an animal in recumbency, with the casting harness.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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
