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Definition of Folium
1. Noun. A thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock.
Definition of Folium
1. n. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
Definition of Folium
1. a thin layer [n -LIA or -LIUMS]
Medical Definition of Folium
1.
Origin: L, a leaf.
1. A leaf, especially. A thin leaf or plate.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Folium
Literary usage of Folium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"... not inclining towards either extremity : 45. folium repandum, a re- pand leaf,
having its rim terminated by angles, with sinuses between them. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"... of a group of lamina, which in front arc separated from the culmen by the
pre-clival fissure and behind appear to be almost continuous with the folium ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1870)
"... each branchial arch with a double series of very long setiform gill-rakers,
the two series being divided by a broad membrane (P. folium). ..."
4. 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 (1882)
"(L. folium, a leaf.) Relating to a leaf or leaves. F. oy'cle. ... (L. folium, a
leaf; pes, a foot.) Having membranous expansions on the ..."
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