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Noun: prone positioning
  1. (medicine) positioning of patients face down so that they are lying on their stomachs, esp. for the treatment of acute respiratory distress (ARDS)
    "The ICU nurses regularly practised prone positioning to improve oxygenation in COVID-19 patients";
    - proning

Encyclopedia: Prone positioning