decumbency

-- While in many cases of pelvic fracture lameness or abnormal decumbency are the salient manifestations, yet the pathognomic symptoms are crepitation or palpable evidence which may be obtained by rectal or vaginal examination.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

Beautifully drawn, but, as I have described it, vigorously erect, and with no decumbency whatever in any part of it.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859