subjacent

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A portion of the parts immediately subjacent to the ulcer loses its life; this rapidly separates; and, before or after a complete removal, a fresh slough is formed in the same manner.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

Of these, the strata, near and under Paris, lying in a hollow of the subjacent strata, and hence termed the Paris Basin, attracted prominent notice in the first place.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

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

On removing the skin from the area in question, no kind or degree of irritation supplied to the subjacent tissue has any effect in producing a fit.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Rostrum, exceedingly minute, enlarged at each zone of growth, not so wide as the immediately subjacent scale on the peduncle.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles