Prone

Prone [prōn]
Adjective
== Origin ==
#Latin: Pro (Forwads)
#Latin: Pronus (learning forward)
#Then: Prone (late Middle English)
== Meanings ==
#Likely to or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something, typically something regrettable or unwelcome.
#Lying flat, especially face downward.
##[Thechnical] Denoting the position of the forearm with the palm of the hand facing downward.
##[Archaic] With a downward slope or direction.
#Having a tendency or inclination; being likely.
##Often used in combination.
##Having the front or ventral surface of a body facing downward; lying with the chest and stomach positioned downward.
##Lying flat or prostrate.
#Transitive,  medical; to place
##To cause or order to lie flat on the ground with the face and stomach facing downward.
##Often used with out.
##To lie flat on one's stomach on the ground.
== Examples ==
#Years of logging had left the mountains prone to mudslides.
#I was lying prone on a foam mattress.
#Prone to forget names.
#His relatives are prone to heart disease.
#Those batteries are prone to corrosion.
#A process that is prone to error.
#.. a great quarterback prone to the occasional, inevitable mistake.
#This means the results should be interpreted cautiously, as smaller sample sizes are prone to being influenced by chance.
#Accident-prone.
#A drought-prone region.
#A patient placed in a prone position.
#The victim was lying prone in the street.
#Prone stems.
#Ventilated patients are typically proned for 16 hours, but at Mass General, Dr. [C. Corey] Hardin said, some are proned for 24 or 48 hours.
#If patients are alert, they can turn, or prone, themselves every couple hours. If they're ventilated, it could take a team of up to half a dozen health care workers 20 minutes to carefully prone a patient, who might then stay on their stomach for up to 24 hours.
#They were proned and handcuffed.
#He was ordered to prone himself.
#Glass said handcuffing in the prone position is the method that is taught under the state's Basic Law Enforcement Training standards. …"Subjects end up being proned out in about 60% of physical force encounters …," Glass said.
#Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Lt. Steve Knight said deputies found the man …. Two deputies drew their firearms and "proned him out at gunpoint," Knight said.
#He immediately proned out when told to do so.
#Hull then corralled the rebound and shoveled the puck past the left arm and leg of the prone Hasek with his forehand, touching off a wild on-ice celebration.
#I too have been prone on my couch this week, a victim of the common cold.
#Quarterback Trevor Lawrence, the top pick in the 2021 draft, has become less prone to error as the season has progressed.
#Critics argued that such a unit could intimidate voters and be prone to abuse by politicians.
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