1. Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness 
2. Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognosis of recovery or death were made

Derived forms: decumbitures

• epidural
• epidural anaesthesia
• epidural anesthesia
• epidural injection
• Epigaea
• Epigaea repens
• epigastric
• epigastric artery
• epigastric fossa
• epigastric vein
• epigastrium
• epigene
• epigenesis
• epigenetic
• epiglottis
• epiglottitis
• epigon
• epigone
• epigram
• epigrammatic
• epigrammatise
• epigrammatist
• epigrammatize
• epigraph
• epigraphical