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lamellae

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lamella
[ləmel′ə] pl. lamellae
Etymology: L, small plate
1 a thin leaf or plate, as of bone.
2 a medicated disk of glycerin and an alkaloid, for insertion under the eyelid, where it dissolves and is absorbed for local application.

lamellae
(lmel´ē),
n the nearly parallel layers of bone tissue found in compact bone.


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The miscibility gap is narrower at high temperatures, so that under slow cooling conditions, early formed augites and low-Ca pyroxenes develop exsolution lamellae as low-Ca pyroxene and augite (respectively) are expelled from the structures.
The tissue disks that result from this procedure consist of a double layer of lamellae (descending and ascending arm) that are connected by interlamellar tissue bridges.
Its luminosity is further enhanced by reflective balustrades and a lamellar wall on the south side of the atrium: the vertical lamellae are moved to change the wall's reflectivity according to the angle of the sun and the nature of the sky.
 
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