See Also: Lamina(medicine)
lamina(dictionary)
lamina of Rexed(medicine)
lamina of lens(medicine)
lamina of tragus(medicine)
lamina papyracea(medicine)
lamina parietalis(medicine)
lamina perpendicularis(medicine)
lamina pretrachealis(medicine)
lamina modioli(medicine)

ossify (oh) and lamina (iou)


ossify (oh)



[Date: 1700-1800; Language: French; Origin: ossifier, from Latin os 'bone']
[I] formal to become unwilling to consider new ideas or change your behaviour
[I and T] technical to change into bone or to make something change into bone
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lamina (iou)



lamina noun. . M17.
[Latin la(m)mina. Cf. LAME noun2, prec.]
A thin plate or layer of a metal or Other material; Anatomy & Biology a thin layer of bone, membrane, or Other tissue. M17.
b. Botany. The flat, expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or thallus. Opp. unguis. M18.
Geology. The thinnest separable layer of a sedimentary rock deposit. M19.
Math. A plane sheet of negligible thickness. M19.