lamellar en · ADJ
Etymology
Compare French lamellaire.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
The term “lamellar armor” refers to a type of armor made up of horizontal rows of small overlapping plates joined by leather lacing. The individual plates are referred to as lamella (singular) and lamellae (plural), literally meaning thin plates or ...
2006, Donald J. LaRocca; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 51:Like scale armor (see cat, no. 38), lamellar armor was widely used in the ancient world, possibly originating in the Near East and spreading rapidly throughout Asia. Lamellar differs from scale armor in two principal ways.
2002, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, Morihiro Ogawa, Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 1991-2002, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 45:For proliferative lesions, woven bone indicates bone actively depositing at time of death. Woven bone is readily distinguished macroscopically by its finely porous appearance. Lamellar bone indicates a lesion that was no longer depositing bone at time of death. Lamellar bone deposits are more coarsely pitted/striated, and pits have rounded, remodeled edges[…].
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30:
Deriveds
pentalamellar · nanolamellar · lamellar ichthyosis · multilamellar · oligolamellar · prolamellar · lamellar corpuscle · epilamellar · lamellarly · nonlamellar · monolamellar · intralamellar · trilamellar · fibrolamellar · lamellarity · lamellar granule · sublamellar · unilamellar · lamellar face · tubulolamellar · lamellary · bilamellar · lamellar trama · interlamellar
Relateds
laminated · laminate · lamellation · lamina · lamellate · lamination · lame
Translations (1)
bg пластинчат (Of or pertaining to a lamella)