Lamina definitions

lăm'ə-nə
A thin plate, sheet, or layer.
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A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.
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A thin scalelike or platelike structure, as one of the thin layers of sensitive vascular tissue in the hoof of a horse.
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A narrow bed of rock.
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The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.
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The bladelike part of a kelp.
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A thin flake, scale, or layer, as of metal or animal tissue.
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The flat, expanded part of a leaf; blade, as distinguished from the petiole.
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A thin plate, sheet, or layer.
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A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.
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A thin scalelike or platelike structure, as one of the thin layers of sensitive vascular tissue in the hoof of a horse.
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A thin layer inside the nuclear membrane of a cell that is composed of a meshlike network of protein fibers.
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The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.
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A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.
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The thinnest recognizable layer of sediment, differing from other layers in color, composition, or particle size. Laminae are usually less than 1 cm (0.39 inches) thick.
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A very thin layer of material.
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(anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.
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(botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.
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Origin of lamina

From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”)

Sentence Examples

  • The conception of the lamina leads immediately to two schemes, according to which a primary wave may be supposed to be broken up. In the first of these the element dS, the effect of which is to be estimated, is supposed to execute its actual motion, while every other element of the plane lamina is maintained at rest.

  • Respiration is conducted by the general surface, by the branchial lamina (external branch) of the feet, and the vesicular appendage (when present) at the base of this branch.

  • Now it is evident that the aerial motion in front of the lamina is determined by what happens at the lamina without regard to the cause of the motion there existing.

  • Imagine a flexible lamina to be introduced so as to coincide with the plane at which resolution is to be effected.

  • Some of the feathers of the straw-coloured throat and cheeks partake of the same structure, but in a less degree, while the subterminal part of the lamina is of a lustrous pearly-white.

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