RE: What's the word for...

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:09 PM
> To: Andrew Warren
> Cc: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: What's the word for...
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Andrew 
> Warren<awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> wrote:
> > McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> >
> >> Lie back and gaze at the stars (or the ceiling) and you are supine.
> >> Lie face down, and you are prone.
> >>
> >> Lie on one side or the other and you are.... Â are..... Â are.....
> >> what, again?
> >
> > Â ÂLateral. ÂGoogle for:
> >
> > Â Â Âsupine prone "lateral position"
> >
> > Â Âto see thousands of examples.
> >
> > Â Â-Andrew
> 
> 
> Damn, he beat me to it. I came up with this:
> 
> http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lateral+decubitus
> 
> decubitus /deÂcuÂbiÂtus/ (de-kuÂbÄ-tus) pl. decuÂbitus   [L.]
> 1. an act of lying down; the position assumed in lying down.
> 
> Of course, it doesn't use supine and prone, it uses dorsal and ventral
> decubitus, so I'm probably still wrong.


Well, what's between dorsal and ventral?  Or..... hee-hee.... lateral to them?

I could have been wrong about there being a category word equivalent in functionality to "prone" and "supine". 

Imagining that there was such a word, and that it had [temporarily?] strayed just beyond the tip of my tongue, might have have been a manifestation of the "old-timer's".   

Sad.

 - K





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