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Definition of Lamina
1. Noun. A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral).
Generic synonyms: Plate
Derivative terms: Laminal, Laminar, Laminate, Laminate, Laminate, Laminate
Definition of Lamina
1. 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.
Definition of Lamina
1. Noun. A very thin layer of material. ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra. ¹
3. Noun. (botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lamina
1. a thin plate, scale, or layer [n -NAE or -NAS] : LAMINAL, LAMINAR, LAMINARY [adj]
Medical Definition of Lamina
1. Flat sheet, as in basal lamina. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamina
Literary usage of Lamina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. which is connected with the tuber cinereum through the
intervention of a thin layer of gray substance, the lamina cinerea. ..."
2. A Treatise on Hydrodynamics: With Numerous Examples by Alfred Barnard Basset (1888)
"When a rectangular lamina is held fixed in a stream which meets it obliquely,
there will be a region of dead water behind the lamina, which will be at rest, ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"These opposed cartilaginous surfaces are connected together by an intermediate
lamina of fibrocartilage which varies in thickness in different subjects. ..."
4. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1876)
"An elliptic lamina of uniform density being supposed to attract, according to
the law of the inverse cube of the distance, a material particle ..."
5. An Introduction to Mathematical Physics by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1912)
"Uniform lamina bounded by two parallel planes and extending to an infinite distance
in all ... By symmetry the attraction will bo normal to the lamina, ..."
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