prostrate

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Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic, prostrate and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” performed by medical students, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Their routine ended with both back on the ice, lying prostrate, chests heaving.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

After the assassination of Darius III by disgruntled Persian nobles that same year, however, Alexander claimed the Persian throne and introduced Persian customs to his court, such as having his subjects prostrate themselves before him.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

His famous father also had his own health scare, announcing in 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostrate cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2023

The spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction took place, and soon, so overwhelming was the grief that seized me, I sank prostrate with my face to the ground.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë