ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Reclination

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Reclination is a noun meaning The act of leaning or reclining.

Meaning

The act of leaning or reclining.

More Meanings

  1. The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
  2. (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.

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Related dictionary entries include reclining, recumbence, reposal, declination, recoiling, accubation.

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