circumadjacent

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English

Etymology

circum- +‎ adjacent

Adjective

circumadjacent (comparative more circumadjacent, superlative most circumadjacent)

  1. 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.