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What does superjacent mean?

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Adjective
  1. Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying. [from 16th c.]
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When the normal tissue was not injured I never saw any that were not superjacent and could not easily be peeled off.
The limit to this load is the superjacent cossette mass which affects juice flow.
The top of the P. undatus zone is defined by the first occurrence of Plectodina tenuis, the name bearer of the superjacent zone.
The superjacent skin is tense and glistening, and the surrounding veins are more or less distended.
The taxonomic diversity is higher than in the underlying Kope Formation and the superjacent upper Arnheim-lower Waynesville interval.
We have, therefore, two conditions present in the derma, the bearing of which on the production of the superjacent epidermis is now to be considered.

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