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striated |
striated muscle |
striated muscle cell |
striated muscle fiber |
striated muscle tissue |
striation
| striatum
| striature
| strich
| strick
| stricken
striation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun striation has 2 senses
- striation(n = noun.shape) stria - any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue; Array is a kind of channel, groove
- striation(n = noun.attribute) band, banding, stria - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" has particulars: collar, stretch mark
Derived form verb striate1
is a kind of bar, streak, stripe
Derived form verb striate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
striation, n.
- The quality or condition of being striated. [1913 Webster]
- A stria; as, the striations on a shell. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
striation
band, bar, belt, bezel, chamfer, chase, chink, corrugation, crack, cranny, craze, cross-hatching, cut, dado, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, engraving, flute, fluting, furrow, gash, gouge, groove, hachure, hairline, hatching, incision, line, lineation, list, microgroove, rabbet, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, slash, slit, streak, streaking, stria, striature, striga, striola, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sulcation, sulcus, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, well-worn groove, wrinkle
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