Look up: lamella

1. Lamella
   In mushrooms, one of the thin, spore-bearing gills attached to the underside of the cup.
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2. lamella
   [n] - a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones 2. [n] - thin plate
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3. Lamella
   Lamella: A thin leaf, plate, disk, wafer.
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4. Lamella
   La·mel'la noun ; plural Latin Lamellæ , English Lamellas . [ Latin lamella , dim. of lamina plate, leaf, layer: confer French lamelle . Confer Lamina , Omelet .] a thin plate or scale of anyth...
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5. lamella
   A thin, plate-like layer, middle lamella, the layer between the walls of two adjacent plant cells. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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6. lamella
   noun thin plate
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7. lamella
   noun a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones
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8. lamella
   (lә-mel´ә) a thin scale or plate, as of bone. a medicated disk or wafer to be inserted under the eyelid. adj., lamel´lar., adj.
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9. Lamella
   • (n.) a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.
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10. lamella
    (from the article `lizard`) ...iguanid Uma, and the lacertid Acanthodactylus have fringes on the toes that provide increased surface area and prevent sinking into loose desert ... ...which are relatively small, mediate daylight vision (photopic vision) and colour sensation in many animals. The photosensitive photoreceptor outer ... ....
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11. lamella
    (from the article `photosynthesis`) ...final acceptor of electrons, replacing the nonphysiological electron acceptors used by Hill. His procedures were refined further so that ... All cell walls contain two layers, the middle lamella and the primary cell wall, and many cells produce an additional layer, called the secondary ... [2 re...
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12. lamella
    (from the article `mineral`) ...in aggregates. Examples of some descriptive terms for such aggregations, illustrated in Figure 8, are given here: granular, an intergrowth of ... ...fields of solid solution than they do at lower ones. Consequently, as temperatures decrease, the pyroxene adjusts its composition in the solid ... Microsc...
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13. lamella
    (from the article `Anthropology and Archaeology`) ...remains of a chariot racing track from the 2nd century and a well-preserved tiled bathhouse chamber. Also in England, a scrap of gold foil found ...
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14. lamella
    lamella (s), lamellae (pl) 1. A thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls. 2. A thin scale, plate, or layer of bone or tissue, as in the gills of a bivalve mollusk or around the minute vascular canals in bone. 3. In mosses, a thin sheet of cells standing up along the midrib of a leaf. 4. In building trades, a...
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15. Lamella
    A lamella is a thin plate, scale or film of bone or tissue.
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16. lamella
    Type: Term Pronunciation: lă-mel′ă, -mel′ē Definitions: 1. A thin sheet or layer (such as occurs in compact bone) or sublayer. 2. A preparation in the form of a medicated gelatin disc, used as a means of making local applications to the conjunctiva in place of solutions. Synonyms: disc2, discus
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17. lamella
    diminutive of Latin lamina = plate; hence, a small plate.
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18. lamella
    (lua-mel;ua) A concentric ring of matrix surrounding the central canal in an osteon of mature bone tissue.
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19. lamella
    (lua-mel;ua) A concentric ring of matrix surrounding the central canal in an osteon of mature bone tissue.
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20. Lamella
    (mycology) A `lamella`, or `gill`, is a papery hymenophore rib under the cap of some mushroom species, most often but not always agarics. The gills are used by the mushrooms as a means of spore dispersal, and are important for species identification. The attachment of the gills to the stem is...
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21. Lamella
    (anatomy) A `lamella` is a thin plate-like structure, often one amongst many `lamellae` very close to one another, with open space between. Aside from respiratory organs, they appear in other biological roles including filter feeding, the traction surfaces of geckos, and chloroplast membranes...
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22. Lamella
    (materials) A `lamella` is a gill-shaped structure: ed`-plates). They appear in biological and engineering contexts, such as filters and heat exchangers. The microscopic structures in bone and nacre are lamellae in the materials science sense of the word. Uses of the term: In Surface chemistr...
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23. Lamella
    (cell biology) A `lamella`, in cell biology, is an extension of a thylakoid within a chloroplast, linking a thylakoid within one granum to one in another. They are the sites of photosystem I. Simply put, lamellae may be considered as a pair of membranes containing chlorophyll. Chloroplasts ar...
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