"Superjacent" Quotes from Famous Books
... easily expand laterally by encroachment upon their neighbors, which is a common effect of local excitement, must be slow to make any impression upon the superjacent bone of the cranium. Cranioscopy, moreover, is incompetent to indicate the development of small regions or portions of a convolution; it gives but a rude survey of development. Being thus incapable of minuteness, accuracy and certainty, it cannot be ... — Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 - Volume 1, Number 12 • Various |