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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamina
Noun
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More junk food on kids’ plates and worse health outcomes.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Additionally, the Silver Note restaurant and bar pairs a live jazz club with a menu of small plates.—
Megan duBois,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Mass shootings are rare in Canada, a country with much stricter gun laws than the US, and school shootings of this scale are almost unheard of.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The company’s forestry arm has planted more than one billion trees, underscoring a scale of stewardship rarely matched in private ownership.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Lamina.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamina. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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