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Recumbency vs Reclination - What's the difference?

recumbency | reclination | Related terms |

Recumbency is a related term of reclination.


As nouns the difference between recumbency and reclination

is that recumbency is (archaic) recumbence while reclination is the act of leaning or reclining.

recumbency

English

Noun

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  • (archaic) recumbence
    • (Webster 1913)

    reclination

    English

    Noun

  • The act of leaning or reclining.
  • The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
  • (surgery) Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
    • (Dunglison)
    (Webster 1913)