- The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being
reclined. - The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a
vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. - The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying
the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous
humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the
upper one and its back surface the lower one.
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