Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin plate, sheet, or layer.
- noun The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.
- noun The bladelike part of a kelp.
- noun A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.
- noun Zoology A thin scalelike or platelike structure, as one of the thin layers of sensitive vascular tissue in the hoof of a horse.
- noun Geology A narrow bed of rock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin plate or scale.
- noun The inner table of the skull.
- noun Synonyms Lamina, lamella. In zoölogy and anatomy these words are usually absolutely synonymous, used interchangeably and without distinction. If there be a possible distinction, it is that lamella may oftener apply to something smaller or thinner than a lamina: for instance, the cover of a book is a lamina, containing leaves or lamellæ. Haeckel draws and maintains this distinction in embryology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
- noun (Bot.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
- noun (Zoöl.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A very
thin layer of material. - noun anatomy A thin
plate orscale , such as the arch of avertebra . - noun botany The flat part of a
leaf orleaflet ; theblade .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know the properties of thin laminae: each ray reflected from such a lamina is formed by the superposition of a ray reflected from the front side of the lamina on a ray reflected from the rear side.
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For each elementary colour these rays add together or subtract from one another according to a classical formula, depending on whether they are in phase or out of phase; in particular, there is extinction when the thickness of the lamina is an even multiple of one quarter of the wavelength, and there is maximum reflection when it is an odd multiple.
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Z.L. Placed over the shallow dental furrow, points to the dental lamina, which is spread out below to form the enamel germ of the future tooth.
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Z.L. Placed over the shallow dental furrow, points to the dental lamina, which is spread out below to form the enamel germ of the future tooth.
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On the inner surface of the lamina choriocapillaris is a very thin, structureless, or faintly fibrous membrane, called the lamina basalis; it is closely connected with the stroma of the choroid, and separates it from the pigmentary layer of the retina.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye 1918
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According to the facts of the case, the plaintiff was injured during the routine sinus surgery procedure, which was intended to clear sinusitis from the plaintiff's maxillary sinus, when the surgeon instead operated in the ethmoid sinus, cut through the side of the orbit of the eye, known as the lamina papyracea, and then severed the medial rectus muscle, which stabilizes and moves the eye.
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Called a laminotomy, it's an arthroscopic procedure that shaves a portion of the bony plate known as the lamina and is supposed to eliminate the pain Gallinari has been feeling in his lower back since he and Robert "Tractor" Traylor collided in the Knicks 'first 2008 summer league game.
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Called a laminotomy, it's an arthroscopic procedure that shaves a portion of the bony plate known as the lamina and is supposed to eliminate the pain Gallinari has been feeling in his lower back since he and Robert "Tractor" Traylor collided in the Knicks 'first 2008 summer league game.
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Mr. Symons does acknowledge the Lord Lamington connection, but adds a further theory: That "the name refers to a 'lamina' of golden apricot jam filling, used to provide moisture to leftover cake."
Lamingtons Joanna Savill 2009
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Another instance of the development of parts usually suppressed, is afforded by the bud-scales of _Magnolia fuscata_, which may sometimes be found with small but perfect leaves projecting from them, the leaf in this case being the lamina which is ordinarily abortive, while the scales are the representatives of the stipules.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
bilby commented on the word lamina
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
November 23, 2009