OVERLYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overlying mean? 

• OVERLYING (adjective)
  The adjective OVERLYING has 1 sense:

1. placed on or over something else

  Familiarity information: OVERLYING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERLYING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placed on or over something else

Synonyms:

overlying; superimposed

Context example:

an overlying image

Similar:

superjacent (lying immediately above or on something else)

 Context examples 

The overlying mucosa may appear hypertrophic as well.

(Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The typical age of the simple craters examined by the researchers indicates they could potentially accumulate ice that was later mixed with overlying regolith over long time scales.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

An advanced, invasive breast adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of distinct changes in the overlying skin.

(Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm in which there is infiltration of the skin overlying the breast by neoplastic large cells with abundant pale cytoplasm and large nuclei with prominent nucleoli (Paget cells).

(Paget Disease of the Breast, NCI Thesaurus)

The adenoma is attached by a stalk that is less in diameter than the overlying tumor.

(Pedunculated Adenoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Paget disease involving the skin overlying the mammary gland, accompanied by invasive ductal breast carcinoma.

(Paget Disease of the Breast with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of a connective tissue core and overlying epithelium.

(Cervical Fibroepithelial Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include sudden onset of radicular pain localizable to a dermatome with overlying cutaneous vascular lesions.

(Cobb Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with secondary proliferative changes in the overlying epidermis (hyperkeratosis).

(Angiokeratoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Solitary lesions of bone that typically cause a bulging of the overlying cortex bearing some resemblance to the saccular protrusion of the aortic wall in aortic aneurysm, hence the name.

(Aneurysmal Bone Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)