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n. A thin plate, sheet, or layer.

n. Botany The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.

n. Botany The bladelike part of a kelp.

n. A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other tissue.

n. Zoology A thin scalelike or platelike structure, as one of the thin layers of sensitive vascular tissue in the hoof of a horse.

n. Geology A narrow bed of rock.

n. A very thin layer of material.

n. A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.

n. The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.

n. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

n. The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.

n. A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather.

n. A thin plate or scale.

n. The inner table of the skull.

n. 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.

n. a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

"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."

lamina papyracea    lamina suprachoroidea    lamina inogastralis    lamina perpendicularis    dental lamina    lamina commissuralis mesencephall    lamina fusca    lamina proligera    cribrose lamina    laminæ of a vertebra   

laminae   

laminectomy    laminate    laminotomy    laminal    laminar   

lamination    scale    leaf    foliation    stratification    sheet    fold    thickness    lift    flake   

stamina   

muscularis    lamella    onand    muito    nonlinearity    clypeo    uniuersalis    conducta    difesa    ...it