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What is a lamina?

What is a lamina? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A very thin layer of material.
  2. (anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.
  3. (botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.
  4. (geology) A fine layer that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
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The cells had dense basal lamina with pinocytotic vesicles along their surface and numerous cytoplasmic thin microfilaments with dense bodies.
Posteriorly, the mesial lamina of the splenial is firmly sutured onto the anterior end of the prearticular.
Leaves move by means of turgor pressure changes at the pulvinus at the base of each lamina.
Real leaf outlines may also be, for example, lobed or extended at the lamina base.
The cells were surrounded by a basal lamina and joined by primitive junctions.
For each plant, the coordinates along the axis of the stem and the midrib of each lamina were recorded.

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