LAMINA (laminae)

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Irregular inflected form: laminae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lamina mean? 

• LAMINA (noun)
  The noun LAMINA has 1 sense:

1. a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

  Familiarity information: LAMINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lamina" is a kind of...):

plate (any flat platelike body structure or part)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lamina"):

lamina arcus vertebrae (lamina of the vertebral arch; the flattened posterior part of the vertebral arch from which the spinous process extends)

Derivation:

laminal; laminar (arranged in or consisting of laminae)

laminate (split (wood) into thin sheets)

laminate (cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material)

laminate (press or beat (metals) into thin sheets)

laminate (create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material)

 Context examples 

It is composed of epithelium, basement membrane, lamina propria mucosae, and lamina muscularis mucosae.

(Ectocervical Mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

The mucous membrane comprising the inner layer of the uterine wall; it consists of a simple columnar epithelium and a lamina propria that contains simple tubular uterine glands.

(Endometrium, NCI Thesaurus)

Infiltration of malignant glandular epithelial cells into the lamina propria of the intestine of the mouse without involvement of the submucosa.

(Intramucosal Carcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

Epidermolysis bullosa characterized by separation of the skin through the lamina lucida resulting in blister formation.

(Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, NCI Thesaurus)

An adenocarcinoma that arises from the colonic glandular epithelium and invades the lamina propria or muscularis mucosa but not the submucosa.

(Colon Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Branching tubules surrounded by lamina propria, comprising at least 80% of the tumor.

(Flat Tubular Adenoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A neoplastic lesion that shows morphologic evidence of invasion into the lamina propria or muscularis mucosa.

(Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Any one of the many cell groups located in the internal medullary lamina of the thalamus.

(Intralaminar Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan is an extracellular matrix and vascular basal lamina component.

(Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm that arises from the gastric glandular epithelium and invades the lamina propria but not the submucosa.

(Gastric Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)