Word.ws English Dictionary

miniplate

miniplate noun: a small surgical plate.

Noun

miniplate (plural miniplates)

  1. A small surgical plate.
    • Several kinds of laminoplasties have been reported for lesions of the thoracic and lumbar spine, including use of a titanium miniplate and translaminar screws.2015 July 4, Naohisa Miyakoshi et al., “En-bloc resection of thoracic calcified meningioma with inner dural layer in recapping T-saw laminoplasty: a case report”, in BMC Surgery, volume 15, →DOI

Forms of miniplate

pluralminiplates

Origin of miniplate

From mini- + plate.

Questions about miniplate

What does miniplate mean?
Miniplate means a small surgical plate.
What part of speech is miniplate?
Miniplate is a noun.
What is the plural of miniplate?
The plural of miniplate is miniplates.

Words near miniplate in the dictionary

  1. minipills
  2. miniplasmid
  3. miniplasmids
  4. miniplasmin
  5. miniplasmins
  6. miniplate
  7. miniplates
  8. miniplay
  9. miniplays
  10. miniplug
  11. miniplugs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: miniplate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “miniplate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/miniplate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.