lamina
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In humans, the dental lamina disintegrates after we grow our adult teeth, but many vertebrates retain the ability to replace their teeth.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025
The new teeth are rooted in a band of tissue called the dental lamina that is present in the jaw but has never been documented elsewhere.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025
The impact fractured the C5 lamina in Cogliano’s cervical spine.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2023
The density is usually considered to be a constant number when the lamina or the object is homogeneous; that is, the object has uniform density.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing lamina
Structural Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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