Sentence examples for laminae- from inspiring English sources

Limited sedimentary deposits did accumulate in this way, and they are said to be varved; one year's worth of sediment is called a varve, and, in general, it includes two laminae per year.

In most instances of such cyclic sedimentation, the bedding, or stratification, is horizontal or essentially so; that is, the transporting, sorting, and depositing agents of wind, running water, and lake and ocean currents and waves accumulated the laminae and strata in a flat-lying or horizontal arrangement.

There is also a tendency for many types of metamorphic rocks to become laminated, and the separate laminae may have distinct chemical compositions.

In most oscines the posterior (plantar) surface of the tarsus is bilaminate that is, covered by two long plates, or laminae.

In the steady state, the opposing torques acting on the inner and outer surfaces of each cylindrical lamina of fluid must be of equal magnitude otherwise the laminae accelerate and this means that r3(dω/dr) must be independent of r.

Laminar flow over a horizontal surface may be thought of as consisting of thin layers, or laminae, all parallel to each other.

In a fly's brain, this filtering role is played by the lamina cells.In a fly's medulla, adjacent photodetectors are paired together, a time delay is introduced between the signals, and the two are then multiplied together.

In nerve-muscle junctions the synaptic cleft contains a structure called the basal lamina, which holds an enzyme that destroys neurotransmitters and thus regulates the amount that reaches the postsynaptic receptors on the receiving cell.

In pinnately lobed margins the leaf blade (lamina) is indented equally deep along each side of the midrib (as in the white oak, Quercus alba), and in palmately lobed margins the lamina is indented along several major veins (as in the red maple, Acer rubrum).

In addition, all seven rhabdomeres that share a common field of view send their axons to the same place in the first ganglionic layer the lamina.

However, because each of the seven photoreceptor axon inputs connects to second-order neurons, the image at the level of the lamina is effectively seven times brighter than in the photoreceptors themselves.