Usually means: Lying down, especially while ill.
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  1. decubation: Wordnik
  2. decubation: Wiktionary
  3. Decubation, decubation: Dictionary.com
  4. Decubation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. decubation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Decubation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. decubation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. decubation: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Decubation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decubation)

▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare, formal) The act of lying down.

Similar:
decubitus, liedown, decubitus ulcer, drowsing, debacchation, depo, decocture, dubdown, downcast, downgoing, more...

Opposite:
supination, upright, standing

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Similar:
decubitus, liedown, decubitus ulcer, drowsing, debacchation, depo, decocture, dubdown, downcast, downgoing, more...

Opposite:
supination, upright, standing



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