subjacent
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No; but exceptionally, from accidental injury, the subjacent corium becomes inflamed, suppurates, and the thickened mass is cast off.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Their descendants gain the subjacent zone, and so the process goes on.
From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay
The choroid coat will be recognized as the black layer lying subjacent to the sclerotic.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The analyses were made from the upper 10 inches, and a quantity of the 10 inches immediately subjacent was analysed as subsoil.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
In 1793 they were found in the subjacent Carboniferous system; in 1828 in the Devonian; in 1840 in the Upper Silurian.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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