subjacent
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All is prepared, so to say, for some empirical short-cut to a fuller control of these subjacent pictures; just as before Mesmer and Puys�gur all was prepared for an empirical short-cut to trance, somnambulism, suggestibility.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
But besides the skin, the subjacent tissues may become involved in the inflammation, and give rise to the formation of pus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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
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