Superficial
(
Galen, c173
)
: A relationship between adjacent objects in the body; an object is superficial to another when it is closer to the surface; the opposite of deep. The dichotomy has been used at least since the second century by Galen; see translation by May (1968, p. 715), also see Standring (2008, p. xxii).
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