Reclination

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.

II. Reclination ·noun The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.

III. Reclination ·noun 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.