Cows often tuck their heads into their flanks . Lateral recumbency; cow is laying on its side rather than upright ( sternal recumbency ) Stage 3 : Lateral recumbency, muscle flaccidity, unresponsiveness to stimuli, and loss of consciousness progressing to coma.
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During spaceflight the back muscles are apparently less used because they do not have to support the upright body against Earth gravity and are not used with great force to make positional adjustments of the body as they are during the recumbency of bed rest.
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Clinical signs of PEM are variable depending on the area of the cerebral cortex affected and may include head pressing, dullness, opisthotonos, central blindness, anorexia, muscle tremors, teeth grinding, trismus, salivation, drooling, convulsions, nystagmus, clonic convulsions, and recumbency.
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Replacement of the protrusion, which can range from the size of a softball to the hanging of the entire uterus down below the hocks, is performed with the cow in sternal recumbency, an epidural injection, and hindlimbs'frogged'rearwards to allow the pelvis to tip forward, easing replacement.
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Or essayist Pico Iyer, who chose " languorous " because " I like the ease, the recline, the slowness that amounts to sensuousness in this word; I like its sense of recumbency, the way it sprawls out like a hammock between the trees . . . . ` Languorous'involves a sloughing off of time and space, a slipping off of rules, a shedding of hard edges . ` Languorous'ushers us, in fact, into a world of sighs ."