Look up: lamina

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   lamina
   Any broad and flattened region of a plant or alga, which allows for increased photosynthetic surface area.
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   Lamina
   The lamina is the blade on the leaf on either side of the midrib on flowering plants. It is usually the primary organ of photosynthesis.
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   Lamina
   Leaf blade.
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   lamina
   [n] - a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
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   Lamina
   The blade of a leaf.
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   LAMINA
   A concurrent object-oriented language. ['Experiments with a Knowledge-based System on a Multiprocessor', Third Intl Conf Supercomputing Proc, 1988]. ['ELINT in LAMINA, Application of a Concurrent Object language', Delagi et al, KSL-88-3, Knowledge Sys Labs, Stanford U].
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   Lamina
   Subunit of a laminate consisting of one or more adjacent plies of the same material with identical orientation.
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   Lamina
   Lamina: A plate or layer. For example, the lamina arcus vertebrae, usually just called the lamina, are plates of bone in each vertebral body.
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   Lamina
   Definition (keystage 3) A solid shape which is very thin in one direction. Often, for finding centres of mass, it is useful to think of solids as made up of a lot of laminae.
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    lamina
    Flat sheet; as in basal lamina.
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    Lamina
    Lam'i·na (lăm'ĭ*nȧ) noun ; plural Latin Laminæ (- nē) English Laminas (-nȧz). [ Latin confer Lamella .] 1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. 2. (Botany) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepa ...
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    lamina
    Flat sheet, as in basal lamina. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    lamina
    noun a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
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    Lamina
    `Lamina` may refer to: *Lamina of the vertebral arch *Planar lamina, a two-dimensional planar closed surface with mass and density, in mathematics *A thin plate, sheet or layer, such as: **Lamina (algae), a structure in seaweeds **the basal lamina, a structure of a living cell **the nuclear lamina, another structure of a living cell **the surface of a leaf, an organ of a plant. **a thin layer of sediment in sedimentary rocks and soils *Laminae,...
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    lamina
    (lam´ĭ-nә) a thin, flat plate or stratum of a composite structure; called also layer. vertebral lamina.
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    Lamina
    • (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.Lamin...
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    lamina
    (from the article `sedimentary rock`) ...normally greater than one centimetre in thickness and visibly separable from superjacent (overlying) and subjacent (underlying) beds. `Strata` ... There is also a tendency for many types of metamorphic rocks to become laminated, and the separate laminae may have distinct chemical compos...
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    lamina
    (from the article `nervous system, human`) The gray matter of the spinal cord is composed of nine distinct cellular layers, or laminae, traditionally indicated by Roman numerals. Laminae I to ... The metathalamus is composed of the medial and lateral geniculate bodies, or nuclei. Fibres of the optic nerve end in the lateral geniculate b...
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    lamina
    (from the article `leaf`) Typically, a leaf consists of a broad, expanded blade (the lamina), attached to the plant stem by a stalklike petiole. Leaves are, however, quite ... ...provides a connection from the stem to permit sap to enter the leaf and the products of photosynthesis (carbohydrates) to be transported from the ... ...are...
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    lamina
    lamina (s), laminae (pl)
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    lamina
    Syn: plate 1 See Also: stratum, layer [L]
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    lamina
    a thin, flat organ or part, usually main upper surface of thallus.
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