Definition of Laminae

1. Noun. (anatomy) (plural of lamina) ¹

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Definition of Laminae

1. lamina [n] - See also: lamina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laminae

lamina superficialis musculi levatoris palpebrae superioris
lamina suprachoroidea
lamina supraneuroporica
lamina tecti mesencephali
lamina terminalis cerebri
lamina terminalis of cerebrum
lamina tragi
lamina vasculosa choroideae
lamina ventralis
lamina visceralis
lamina visceralis pericardii
lamina vitrea
laminability
laminable
laminae (current term)
laminae albae cerebelli
laminae medullares cerebelli
laminae medullares thalami
laminagram
laminagraph
laminagraphy
laminak
laminaks
laminal
laminals
laminar
laminar air flow unit
laminar cortical necrosis
laminar cortical sclerosis

Literary usage of Laminae

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

1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Textural Variation within Single Beds and laminae. ... With reference to laminae deposited in water, whether wind or water current was the transporting ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"By AIEE MAGNETIC FLUX DISTRIBUTION IN ANNULAR STEEL laminae BY AE KENNELLY AND PL ALGER ABSTRACT OF PAPER The distribution of alternating magnetic flux ..."

3. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1859)
"found together with a number of white laminae of mica, a few dark green or ... If these laminae of mica, that are often so numerous, had been deposited at ..."

4. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1855)
"6 Radiate and circular fibrous laminae entirely destroyed by ulceration . ... 3 All the laminae destroyed by ulceration except the mucous . ..."

5. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"... interposed between the laminae of two adjacent vertebrae. ... ridge on the inner surface of the laminae as far as the root of the spine; below, ..."

6. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"In the horny layer there were at intervals rounded elevations, which were made up of flattened nucleated horny cells in laminae, with, between the laminae, ..."

7. The Geology of Worcester, Massachusetts by Joseph Hartshorn Perry, Benjamin Kendall Emerson (1903)
"The surfaces of these laminae are frequently greenish in color indicating the ... Between the laminae of this schist, also, has been injected granite, ..."

8. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"By slow degrees the ligaments between the laminae and the spines yield to the ... Each segment has two epiphyseal laminae. In the destruction of a single ..."

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