Lamina may refer to:
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Saa Emerson Lamina
Saa Emerson Lamina is a Sierra Leonean politician and the Mayor of Koidu Town. Lamina is the youngest mayor in Sierra Leone's history, and at the time of his inauguration was the youngest mayor in West Africa.
Early life and education
Saa Em ...
, Sierra Leonean politician
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Tamba Lamina
Tamba John Sylvanus Lamina is a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He is the current Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (Sierra Leone), Minister of Local Government and Rural Development in the cabinet of Julius Maada Bio, se ...
, Sierra Leonean politician and diplimat
Science and technology
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Planar lamina
In mathematics, a planar lamina (or plane lamina) is a figure representing a thin, usually uniform, flat layer of the solid. It serves also as an idealized model of a planar cross section of a solid body in integration.
Planar laminas can be used ...
, a two-dimensional planar closed surface with mass and density, in mathematics
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Laminar flow
In fluid dynamics, laminar flow is characterized by fluid particles following smooth paths in layers, with each layer moving smoothly past the adjacent layers with little or no mixing. At low velocities, the fluid tends to flow without lateral mi ...
, (or streamline flow) occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers
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Lamina (algae)
The lamina or blade in macroscopic algae like seaweed is a generally flattened structure that typically forms the principal bulk of the thallus
Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the ...
, a structure in seaweeds
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Lamina (anatomy)
Lamina is a general anatomical term meaning "plate" or "layer". It is used in both gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy to describe structures.
Some examples include:
* The laminae of the thyroid cartilage: two leaf-like plates of cartilage t ...
, with several meanings
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Lamina (leaf), the flat part of a leaf, an organ of a plant
* Lamina, the largest petal of a floret in an aster family flowerhead: see
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''Lamina'' (spider), a genus in the family Toxopidae
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Lamina (neuropil) The lamina is the most peripheral neuropil of the insect visual system. There are twelve distinct neuron classes in the lamina: the lamina monopolar cell Lamina monopolar cells are a class of neurons in the most peripheral neuropil
Neuropil (or "n ...
, the most peripheral neuropil of the insect visual system
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Nuclear lamina, another structure of a living cell
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Basal lamina
The basal lamina is a layer of extracellular matrix secreted by the epithelial cells, on which the epithelium sits. It is often incorrectly referred to as the basement membrane, though it does constitute a portion of the basement membrane. The ba ...
, a structure of a living cell
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Lamina propria
The lamina propria is a thin layer of connective tissue that forms part of the moist linings known as mucous membranes or mucosae, which line various tubes in the body, such as the respiratory tract, the gastrointestinal tract, and the urogenita ...
, the connective part of the mucous
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Lamina of the vertebral arch
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Lamination (geology), a layering structure in sedimentary rocks usually less than 1 cm in thickness
* Laminae, a part of the
horse hoof
* Laminae, another name for the
core lamiids, a clade in botany
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Lamia, a creature from Greek mythology.
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Lamia (Basque mythology), a creature from Basque mythology
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Lamina cribrosa (disambiguation) Lamina cribrosa may refer to:
*Cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone (horizontal lamina or lamina cribrosa ossis ethmoidalis)
*Lamina cribrosa sclerae, a mesh-like structures which allows nerve fibres of the optic nerve to pass through the sclera
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Laminar (disambiguation)
Laminar means "flat". Laminar may refer to:
Terms in science and engineering:
*Laminar electronics or organic electronics, a branch of material sciences dealing with electrically conductive polymers and small molecules
* Laminar armour or "banded ...
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