Definition of Delaminate

1. Verb. To cause something assembled by lamination to come apart (or take apart) into the layers that make it up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Delaminate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delaminate

dekopon
dekopons
del
del credere
delaceration
delacerations
delactation
delafossite
delafossites
delaine
delaines
delaminate (current term)
delaminated
delaminates
delaminating
delaminations
delapidate
delapidated
delapse
delapsed
delapses
delapsing
delapsion
delapsions
delate

Literary usage of Delaminate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The fact that delaminate and invaginate gastrulae are in several instances found coexisting in the same group renders it certain that there are not two ..."

2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"It would seem to follow from this that a delaminate gastrula has here been a secondary result of an abbreviation in the development. ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... in which the enteric space makes its appearance later by excavation. In the delaminate method the enteric space is at first without a ..."

4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"... cells delaminate from the ectoderm and wander into the blastocoel, we find that the cavity enclosed by the later entoderm, and thus comparable to a ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"... in different forms is, however, still unsolved, and embryologists are not yet agreed whether the invaginate or delaminate form is the more primitive. ..."

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