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How to use lamella in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Lamella means a thin, plate-like structure. Example: “The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.”

Examples of lamella by meaning

nounA thin, plate-like structure.

  • The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.1943, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, John West Wells, Revision of the Suborders Families, and Genera of the Scleractinia, page 32

More sentences with lamella

  • The chorion has a predominantly lamellar structure, the lamellae being two-dimensional networks of protein fibrils.1994, Klaus Urich, Comparative Animal Biochemistry, page 392. From the entry chorion
  • Internal morphology: Dental lamellae short, slightly recurved and close to the valve sides.1975: Polska Akademia Nauk Komitet Geologiczny, Acta Geologica Polonica, volume 25, page 118 (Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe). From the entry falciferous
  • Pileus purplish red; lamellae pale buff becoming miniatous on drying, broad in front, narrow behind, distant, equal.1963, L.R. Hesler, North American Species of Hygrohorus. From the entry miniatous
  • Lamellae and starch granules appear first in the plastonema and later in the plastosome.1961, University of California, Davis, Summaries of Dissertations Submitted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requirements for the Degree of…. From the entry plastosome
  • These endings have a bulboid expansion which is invariably invested with a lamella of the Schwann cell and its basal lamina.2012, Z. Halata, The Mechanoreceptors of the Mammalian Skin. From the entry bulboid
  • Ribs and growth lamellae gave the shells of many atrypids the possibility to develop an array of structures.2004, Paul Copper, Silurian (late Llandovery-Ludlow) Atrypid Brachiopods from Gotland, Sweden, and the Welsh Borderlands, Great Britain. From the entry atrypid
  • Only the edible particles are left behind on the lamellae.2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, “Mallard”, in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, volumes 11 (LEO–MAR), Tarrytown…. From the entry dabble
  • Two supracheliceral lamellae variously ornamented with spines and tubercles.1980 September 5, James C. Cokendolpher, “Replacement Name for Mesosoma Weed, 1892, With a Revision of the Genus (Opiliones, Phalangiidae…. From the entry supracheliceral
  • Mid-ventrally the sternopleurites unite in a suture, the discrimen, whose inflection forms the very high transparent lamella of the discrimen.1960, Fred A. Urquhart, The monarch butterfly, page 227. From the entry discrimen
  • The dorsal is hardly convex; it is formed by a thick layer of dactylethrae closed by a thin calcareous lamella.1941, James H. McGuirt, Louisiana Tertiary Bryozoa, page 105. From the entry dactylethra
  • Fabric elements such as twin lamellae, kink bands, translation and gliding in some crystals are some of the petrofabric features at micro-level.1993 January 13, T.S. Nagaraj, Principles of Testing Soils, Rocks and Concrete, Elsevier, page 311. From the entry petrofabric
  • Pedicle-valve ornament of concentrid lamellae and growth lines, faint capillation; spines in row at low angle to hinge, directed laterally, bases subparallel.1960, Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda), page…. From the entry capillation
  • A shish-kebab polymer crystal usually consists of a central fibril (shish) and disk-shaped folded-chain lamellae (kebab) oriented perpendicularly to the shish as shown in Fig. 18.3a.2007, Lingyu Li, Bing Li, Steve L. Kodjie, and Christopher Y. Li, Polyolefin Composites, ed. Domasius Nwabunma and Thein Kyu, chapter 18…. From the entry shish kebab
  • When a duck dabbles its bill in mud, it is using the lamellae (transverse plates) on the inner edges of its bill as a highly efficient filter.2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, “Mallard”, in International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, volumes 11 (LEO–MAR), Tarrytown…. From the entry dabble
  • The two species differ, however, in the shape of the solenomerite, much broader and with a distal lamella in the new species, vs. with obviously narrower processes in Ommatoiulus bavayi.2015 August 27, “A New Dimension in Documenting New Species: High-Detail Imaging for Myriapod Taxonomy and First 3D Cybertype of a New…. From the entry solenomerite

Meaning of lamella

  1. noun A thin, plate-like structure.
  2. noun The gill of a mushroom.

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Questions about lamella in a sentence

How do you use lamella in a sentence?
Lamella is used as a noun. For example: “The most recent study has been made by Hayasi (78), who finds that the calcareous lamellae which form the sclerodermites are formed by secretions of the calicoblasts and that the latter are not themselves calcified.”
What is a short sentence with lamella?
“Two supracheliceral lamellae variously ornamented with spines and tubercles.”
What does lamella mean?
Lamella means a thin, plate-like structure.

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