Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
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 452 more examples
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 51For 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
Origin
Compare French lamellaire.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian пластинчат
- пластинчат (plastinčat)Of or pertaining to a lamella
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