circumadjacent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]circumadjacent (comparative more circumadjacent, superlative most circumadjacent)
- Lying immediately around
- 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 15:
- The pain and heat, by degrees derive a vast flux of blood and humors which distend all the circumadjacent vessels, in order to quench the incendium.