lamina

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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

This usually happens in a part of our gut called the lamina propria.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

The impact fractured the C5 lamina in Cogliano’s cervical spine.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Many aquatic plants have leaves with wide lamina that can float on the surface of the water, and a thick waxy cuticle on the leaf surface that repels water.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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