Look up: lamina

1. lamina
   Any broad and flattened region of a plant or alga, which allows for increased photosynthetic surface area.
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2. Lamina
   Leaf blade.
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3. lamina
   [n] - a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
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4. Lamina
   The blade of a leaf.
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5. Lamina
   Subunit of a laminate consisting of one or more adjacent plies of the same material with identical orientation.
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6. 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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7. lamina
   Flat sheet; as in basal lamina.
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8. 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 ...
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9. lamina
   Flat sheet, as in basal lamina. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. lamina
    noun a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
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11. lamina
    (lam´ĭ-nә) a thin, flat plate or stratum of a composite structure; called also layer. vertebral lamina.
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12. 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, fl...
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. lamina
    lamina (s), laminae (pl)
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17. 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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18. lamina
    a thin, flat organ or part, usually main upper surface of thallus.
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19. 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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20. lamina
    Type: Term Pronunciation: lam′i-nă, lam′i-nē Synonyms: plate1
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21. lamina
    In flowering plants (angiosperms), the blade of the leaf on either side of the midrib. The lamina is generally thin and flattened, and is usually the primary organ of photosynthesis. It has a network of veins through which water and nutrients are conducted. More generally, a lamina is any thin, flat...
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22. LAMINA
    Any thin bone. The lamina of the spine (arcus vertebrae) is a thin bone plate extending posteriorly from the pedicles and fusing to provide the dorsal portion of the neural arch (surrounding the spinal cord), forming the base for the spinous process.
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23. lamina
    Latin = plate, either a layer of nervous tissue, like the laminae of the lateral geniculate body, or a connective tissue membrane, like lamina cribrosa sclerae, or of bone, as in vertebral laminae; hence, laminectomy = lamina + Greek ektome = excision - excision of the vertebral laminae to give access to the spinal cord; adjective - laminar.
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24. lamina
    (lam;u1-nua) A thin plate of bone that extends superiorly from the body of a vertebra to form either side of the arch of a vertebra.
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25. lamina
    (lam;u1-nua) A thin plate of bone that extends superiorly from the body of a vertebra to form either side of the arch of a vertebra.
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