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  • noun anatomy Plural form of lamina.

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Examples

  • We know that if we pour selenium on to mica, and if we try to tear off this mica, thin laminae of mica remain adhering to the selenium.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • You know the properties of thin laminae: each ray reflected from such a lamina is formed by the superposition of a ray reflected from the front side of the lamina on a ray reflected from the rear side.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity.

    Archive 2009-07-01 AYDIN 2009

  • In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity.

    Ventridens suppressus AYDIN 2009

  • The Romans took many gold swords and gold belts set with pearls, and the shield of Razates, which was all of gold and had 120 laminae, and his gold breastplate; and they brought in his caftan together with his head, and his bracelets and his gold saddle.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor 2009

  • Massive ventrolaterally projecting flanges projected from the bottom surface of the specimen: they were highly similar to the hypertrophied centroparapophyseal laminae regarded by Wedel et al. (2000a) as diagnostic for Sauroposeidon.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Massive ventrolaterally projecting flanges projected from the bottom surface of the specimen: they were highly similar to the hypertrophied centroparapophyseal laminae regarded by Wedel et al. (2000a) as diagnostic for Sauroposeidon.

    ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I Darren Naish 2006

  • Bony struts, called laminae, divide the fossae and connect the main ‘landmarks’ of the bone (such as the pre - and postzygapophyses), and each of these laminae has a name.

    ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006

  • The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides.

    ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I Darren Naish 2006

  • The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

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