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Definition of Lamella

1. Noun. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.

2. Noun. A thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones.

3. Noun. Thin plate.

Definition of Lamella

1. n. a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of which certain shells are composed.

Definition of Lamella

1. Noun. a thin, plate-like structure ¹

2. Noun. (mycology) the gill of a mushroom. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lamella

1. a thin plate, scale, or membrane [n -LAE or -LAS] : LAMELLAR [adj]

Medical Definition of Lamella

1. A thin, plate-like layer, middle lamella, the layer between the walls of two adjacent plant cells. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamella

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lamed lamedh lamedhs lameds lamel lamella (current term) lamella of bone lamellae lamellar lamellar bone

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Literary usage of Lamella

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"Superior lamella marginal, rather high and thin, oblique, continuous with the spiral lamella, which penetrates about to the middle of the ventral side. ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"A second lamella, which the author, like Prof. Strieker, regards as the true sensorial lamella. 3. A third lamella, which corresponds to the ..."

3. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"out each lamella and also uniform throughout the enclosing metal, ... 100, that the sides of the etching furrow do not lie in the Neumann lamella but in the ..."

4. A Treatise on diseases of the joints by Richard Barwell (1881)
"The lamella} which branch from its internal surface, enclose the cancelli, and permeate the whole area of the short bone or epiphysis, are very variable in ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The layer of compact bone which forms the articular surface, and to which the cartilage is attached, is called the articular lamella. ..."

6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"The lamella which occupy the spaces between the systems of concentric ... (L. lamella, a thin plate of metal or other substance. ..."

7. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"56, where there is a primary lamella and at its left a secondary one quite well developed but close to it. Following this in the successive figures up to ..."

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