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third-person singular simple present onlays, present participle onlaying, simple past and past participle onlaid
(transitive, literary) To lay or place something on a surface. examples
countable and uncountable, plural onlays
(often attributive) A material placed such that it overlaps another. quotations examples
Umbilical hernias in many centers are best managed with the use of polypropylene mesh placed in the onlay position or Ventralex-type mesh (Bard Davol) placed intraperitoneally in patients under local anesthesia in a day-surgery setting.
2015, Evangelos P. Misiakos et al., “Current Trends in Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair”, in JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, volume 19