recumbency

“You won’t daydream about rest and recumbency, lawn chairs and inflated pool rafts and white hotel comforters,” she writes.

There are many different causes of this so-called orthostatic intolerance – the more general term for the symptoms that come on with standing and resolve with recumbency.

"Every single animal was down. We had to rehydrate them and after 24 hours we could load them onto two vehicles and drive them to Delhi. Five of them were in recumbency, we knew they won't pull through, but we didn't have the heart to leave them there. Another one later died from extreme dehydration."

The trick, he said, is to get the camel into a position that veterinarians call “ventral recumbency,” or lying on its belly.

An expedition over the snow to the outlying tents by a half-clad Sahib, who expects to enjoy at least the advantage of withdrawing himself at the last moment from the friendly down-bag, is calculated to disturb the recumbency of others; and a kick-off in this manner to the day's work is at all events exhilarating.