lamellar
Small cysts occurred in gill lamellae of nearly all fish.
We examined the number of elastic lamellae in the wall of the proximal aortic arch.
The two cavities are separated by a thin, bony lamella.
Quartz is polygonal, with internal deformation lamellae and subgrains.

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lamella
The formation of the stacked lamellae would seem to be an energy-wasteful process and not to be directly the consequence of glycogen sequestration.
Each lamella is a bilayer, and their ensemble is also called a texture.
Due to the nature of the very fine lamellae, it was difficult to analyse these using a microprobe.
The minor lamellae appear as crescents or rounded chevrons.
Both churches deploy lamellae as light attenuators and resonators which operate within an enclosure lined predominantly with white opaque paint which is without intrinsic quality.
Furthermore, in specimens with coarctation, the proximal aortic arch contained fewer elastic lamellae than specimens without coarctation.
In the descending aorta, the number of elastic lamellae was not significantly different between the different groups.
The apical lamellae and basal invaginations are characteristic features of trematode excretory epithelium and are believed to be concerned with its absorptive capacity.
The polaroplast has 2 regions : an anterior region with closely packed lamellae and a posterior region with distinct wide lamellae.
Within the nucleus, the chromatin appears as coarse strands and closely-packed lamellae and the nuclear envelope is thickened and irregularly folded.
In tangential section the helicoidal arrangement gave rise to the appearance of arcs of material within parallel lamellae.
Pentlandite forms flame-like exsolution lamellae in pyrrhotite and discrete grains adjacent to pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite.
Inverted pigeonite is often enclosed by clinopyroxene (augite) and contains her ring bone-like augite lamellae.
In contrast, the other species only developed a few rediae (table 1), generally located in the haemolymphatic sinuses of renal lamellae.
In both species the luminal surface of the excretory bladder epithelium is increased by lamellae, and the basal plasma membrane forms invaginations.
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