superjacent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of superjacent
1600–10; < Latin superjacent- (stem of superjacēns ), present participle of superjacēre to rest upon. See super-, subjacent
Example Sentences
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Village streets threaded around the hillside, eternally watched over by the superjacent castle.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011
Stagnation of food results in superjacent dilatation and esophagitis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Bronchial Dilators.—It is not uncommon to find a stricture of the bronchus superjacent to a foreign body that has been in situ for a period of months.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
And was it not possible, in the second place, that he had not sufficiently heated his infusions and the superjacent air?
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Organs which easily expand laterally by encroachment upon their neighbors, which is a common effect of local excitement, must be slow to make any impression upon the superjacent bone of the cranium.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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