- 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.
- Process of returning to an inferior state - The act of retrograding, or going backward;
retrogradation. - Backward development; a passing from a higher to a
lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal,
approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be
expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.