overlain

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overlain

/oʊ.vɚ.leɪn/ US

Rhymes with -eɪn

verb

participle, past past participle of overlie It is usually rapidly progressing osteolytic lesions that initiated just prior to death, such as those that occur in malignant cancers that tend to present the most problems in recognition. Examples of such lesions exist in anatomical collections in individuals documented to have died of cancer. If

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@misc{overlain_2026,
  title = {overlain},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overlain},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}