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LAMINA
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Irregular inflected form: laminae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
Classified under:
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:
Tis: Carcinoma in situ: intraepithelial tumor without invasion of the lamina propria.
(Gastric Antrum Carcinoma In Situ, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of collagen deposits in the lamina propria of the colonic mucosa.
(Collagenous Colitis, NCI Thesaurus)
A family of class V intermediate filaments that interact with nuclear membrane-associated proteins to form the nuclear lamina.
(Lamin B, NCI Thesaurus)
It is made up of two layers, the basal lamina and the reticular lamina.
(Basilar Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
It is attached to and supported by the lamina.
(Nuclear Inner Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
A retinal layer composed of the basal lamina of Muller's cells.
(Inner Limiting Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
A thin layer of smooth muscle within the bladder lamina propria.
(Bladder Muscularis Mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)
A thin layer of smooth muscle fibers found as a part of the tunica mucosa in the gastrointestinal tract and urinary bladder deep to the lamina propria mucosae.
(Muscularis Mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes CD151 antigen protein, is involved in both signaling and epithelial cell adhesion to the basal lamina.
(CD151 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Epithelium derived from the ectoderm of the dental lamina.
(Outer Enamel Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)
