onlay
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English onleien, onleggen (“to lay or place; impose; attack”). Equivalent to on- + lay.
Verb[edit]
onlay (third-person singular simple present onlays, present participle onlaying, simple past and past participle onlaid)
- (transitive, literary) To lay or place something on a surface.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
onlay (countable and uncountable, plural onlays)
- (often attributive) A material placed such that it overlaps another.
- 2015, Evangelos P. Misiakos et al., “Current Trends in Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair”, in JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons[1], volume 19, :
- Umbilical hernias in many centers are best managed with the use of polypropylene mesh placed in the onlay position or Ventralex-type mesh (Bard Davol) placed intraperitoneally in patients under local anesthesia in a day-surgery setting.
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