Lamella Definition

Lamella Sentence Examples

• The whole of the middle lamella or originally formed cell-wall separating one from another disappears before the adult state is reached, so that the walls of the hydroids consist of a framework of lignified bars, with open communication between the cell cavities.

• Along the sutural border of the elytron, the chitinous lamella forms a tubular space within which are numerous glands.

• The sexes are distinct, and the generative opening is on the side of the body above the edge of the inner lamella of the inner gill.

• Consequently, each primitive filament has a descending and an ascending ramus, and instead of each row forming a simple plate, the plate is double, consisting of a descending and an ascending lamella.

• The filaments take on a secondary grouping, the surface of the lamella being thrown into a series of halfcylindrical ridges, each consisting of ten or twenty filaments; a filament of much greater strength and thickness than the others may be placed between each pair of groups.