as in plate
a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale the laminae of stratified rock were deposited separately, building upwards as time passed

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Recent Examples of lamina The tissue in which the teeth were embedded, called the dental lamina, was similarly only recorded inside a vertebrate's jaw before the study, per CBC. Staff Author, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025 The dental lamina has never been found outside of the mouth until now. Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2025 Two of these organs — the vascular organ of lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the subfornical organ (SFO) — are sensory organs not unlike a nose or an ear. Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025 The back procedure was a laminotomy, which is a removal of a small portion of the lamina and ligaments, according to the Mayfield Clinic. Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017 A lamina is simply a very thin sedimentary bed (less than a couple centimeters thick). Brian Romans, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2008
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  • Tien Kung placed fruit on a plate, moved goods in a warehouse, and navigated grass and gravel.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The food eventually got to the table, but, boy, were there plenty of shattered plates and busted chairs along the path.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • These tariffs threaten to kneecap an emerging sector of innovation around the world, that is, for the first time, using traditional startup strategies and pathways to innovate, scale and grow.
    Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Lamina.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamina. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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