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Babies can die of suffocation when their airways are obstructed by lying against their mother - a phenomenon known as 'overlying'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

However, the CPSC did research on this "overlying" danger with cosleeping and found that healthy situations produced good results for parents and child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Bursae are small fluid-filled sacs that serve as cushions and reduce friction between bone and other moving parts, such as overlying muscle, tendons, or skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Arthritis] Reference

We do know what his overlying reality may have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Evil] Reference

Subclavian artery of the right side overlying the pleural sac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

It consists of broken rock, sand, and soil, generally overlying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference

Jutland, but it is always found as an undercurrent overlying the oceanic water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Somersetshire, where the overlying beds of the New Red Sandstone are horizontal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Of such pool deposits overlying the drift there are many instances in the Northern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Very young infants have often been smothered by their mothers, by overlying during sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses] Reference

The south here and there presents sheets of rock, the overlying strata having slipped off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

In a poem, for example, the metrical rhythm is a framework overlying the development of the thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

These privacy curtains, but then there are these sheets sort of overlying lots of the bodies out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2010] Reference

The salt was from fifteen to twenty feet below the surface, and the overlying soil was soft and friable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

N.E. At different parts in this neighbourhood are strata of sandstone with fossils, overlying beds of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The overlying feeling, according to one of the journalists, is they may have been perceived as spies at one point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2003] Reference

As regards size, the epidermal cells overlying the sclerenchyma are small and those lying over parenchyma are larger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Tatsthanat is explained by the commentator as Varasya avaradhisrhanat, i.e., in consequence of vara overlying the avara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Tonga most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Tonga: most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Terrain: most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

The soil was a deposit of semi-fluid mud and quicksand overlying a very irregular rock bottom and encircled by a ledge of rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

Below this surface soil is a stratum of sand, overlying the gravelly beds below and passing into the surface soil just mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

As the spores grow, they finally break the overlying epidermis, and then become rounded as the pressure from the sides is relieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The force of the steam and other gases was too great to be restrained, and at a weak spot in the overlying rocks they broke through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Finally the masses of spores burst through the overlying cells, appearing like masses of soot, whence the popular name for the plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

In order that the overlying gravel may be removed as cheaply as possible, water is supplied by means of ditches, often many miles long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

In some places the shale is several hundred feet in thickness, and contains more carbonaceous matter than all the overlying coal strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference

That's because wrinkles in those places tend to be "dynamic," the result of muscle contraction that wrinkles the overlying skin like an accordion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botox Boom] Reference

He informs me that he has found everywhere the same sheet of red, unstratified clay, with pebbles and occasional boulders, overlying the rock in place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

This is shown by the fact that directly overlying the lignite beds are alternating layers of sand and gravel, and, resting on these, glacier-born bowlders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

A very complex condition of the veins which join the external jugular at this part of the course of the subclavian artery is now and then to be found overlying that vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference