<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by The Bombay Doors:<BR><B><I> prostrate cancer.</I></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>pros·trate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prstrt)<BR>tr.v. pros·trat·ed, pros·trat·ing, pros·trates <P>1. To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: ??He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself? (Iris Murdoch). <BR>2. To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees. <BR>3. To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war. <BR>