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adoarns commented on the word decube
Used in the hospital in one of two ways.
To refer to bedsores, also known as decubitus ulcers.
To refer to a kind of roentgenogram of the chest made with the patient on his side, often sought to see if fluid seen around the lungs in a regular chest x-ray will shift and can be tapped.
January 26, 2008