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• layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam …   Medical dictionary

• layer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ fine, thin ▪ Everything was covered with a fine layer of dust. ▪ deep, dense, heavy, thick ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• outermost — adj. Outermost is used with these nouns: ↑edge, ↑layer, ↑reach, ↑ring …   Collocations dictionary

• S layer — A continuous layer of glycoprotein or protein repeating units forming usually the outermost layer of several species of archae and eubacteria. About 10nm thick …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• olfactory nerve fiber layer — the outermost layer of the olfactory bulb, composed of axons of the olfactory cells before they terminate in the adjacent glomerular layer …   Medical dictionary

• enveloping layer — the outermost layer of cells surrounding the embryo that become very flattened in the blastula and give rise to the periderm …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• marginal layer — the outermost layer of the wall of the primordial neural tube, a fibrous mesh into which the nerve fibers later grow, forming the white matter of the central nervous system …   Medical dictionary

• horny layer — n. outermost layer of the epidermis that is made up of dead cells that come off …   English contemporary dictionary

• horny layer — noun the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off • Syn: ↑stratum corneum, ↑corneum • Hypernyms: ↑stratum • Part Holonyms: ↑epidermis, ↑cuticle …   Useful english dictionary

• S-layer — An S layer (surface layer) is a part of the cell envelope commonly found in bacteria, as well as among archaea. It consists of a monomolecular layer composed of identical proteins or glycoproteins. This two dimensional structure is built via self …   Wikipedia

• Germ layer — [ http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics cell.html NCBI] .] A germ layer is a collection of cells, formed during animal embryogenesis. Germ layers are particularly pronounced in the vertebrates; however, all animals more complex than… …   Wikipedia