lamina
lamina
Definition
lami·na (lam′i nə)
noun pl. -·nae′-nē′ or -·nas
- a thin flake, scale, or layer, as of metal or animal tissue
- the flat, expanded part of a leaf; blade, as distinguished from the petiole
Etymology: L, thin piece of metal or wood < ? IE *(s)tlamen, a spreading out < base *stel-, to spread
lamina
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- hoof: The nail must penetrate deep enough to hold firm, but not deep enough to penetrate the sensitive laminae of the hoof.
Converse of object
- call: Beneath these is a springy layer of protein called an elastic lamina.
- join: The destinations and connectivities of these repeating units of eight cells, at the point where they join the lamina, is being determined.
- have: Each of these layers have a basal lamina that add slightly to the distance across which exchanges are made.
Adjective modifier
- basal: The basal lamina along the base of the cells was damaged at several foci.
- elastic: The 3 layers are separated by 2 elastic laminae.
- sensitive: This in turn leads to inflammatory substances being released into the blood, which supplies the sensitive laminae of the cow's feet.
- nuclear: Abstract The nuclear lamina is a filamentous structure composed of lamins that supports the inner nuclear membrane.
- synthetic: The cabinet is made from wood covered with a double synthetic lamina and edged with aluminum ( inside/outside ).
- double: The cabinet is made from wood covered with a double synthetic lamina and edged with aluminum ( inside/outside ).
Modifies a noun
- propria: The cancer has grown through the skin-like lining of the bladder into a layer underneath, called the lamina propria.
- reticularis: This damage and ensuing repair responses are proposed to orchestrate airway remodeling via activation of myofibroblasts in the underlying lamina reticularis.
- dura: The lamina dura is a thin white line around the root.
- layer: You can also see lymphoid cells in the lamina propria layers.
Noun used with modifier
- ozone: In this study, observations of ozone laminae made in Feb. 1995 during the SESAME campaign were modeling using the contour advection technique.
- hoof: The pain is caused by pinching and inflammation of the sensitive hoof laminae at the edge of the crack.
- leaf: These can occur anywhere on the leaf lamina but are most commonly found progressing from the leaf tip or margin ( see Fig.
Browse dictionary entries near lamina
- lamia
- lamenting
- lamented
- Lamentations
- lamentation
- lamentable
- lament
- lamellose
- lamellirostral
- lamelliform
- laminable
- laminar
- laminar flow
- laminaria
- laminate
- laminated
- lamination
- laminectomy
- laminin
- laminitis
