verb
definition
To mark something with striations.
adjective
definition
Having parallel lines or grooves on the surface.
Examples of striated in a Sentence
The muscular tissue consists primarily of processes from the bases of the epithelial cells, processes which are contractile in nature and may be distinctly striated.
The cartilage is shaded and dotted, and the bony centres are light and striated.
They are minute structures having a round or oval shape, concentrically striated, and frequently showing a small nucleus-like body or cavity in their centre.
The muscles are arranged, jn ten or more layers, and are transversely striated.
The body is enveloped by a thick striated protective cuticle which is frequently raised into hooks or spines.
Two of the five compartments into which it is divided by walls of deeply striated volcanic ash are constantly emitting steam, while a new vent displaying great activity has been opened at the base of the cone on the south side.
The crystals are orthorhombic, with angles similar to those of marcasite; they are often prismatic in habit, and the prism M is usually terminated by the deeply striated faces of an obtuse dome r.
The only species, P. striatus, is a much smaller creature, growing to six inches only, and striated black and yellow; it inhabits Georgia and Florida.
It is, in common with others, a hollow process into which run two pairs of broad, coarsely transversely striated muscles.
Many indications of ice action are found in these islands; striated surfaces are to be seen on the cliffs in Eday and Westray, in Kirkwall Bay and on Stennie Hill in Eday; boulder clay, with marine shells, and with many boulders of rocks foreign to the islands (chalk, oolitic limestone, flint, &c.), which must have been brought up from the region of Moray Firth, rests upon the old strata in many places.
Astartidae.-Shell concentrically striated; foot elongate, without byssus.
The muscles are striated and arranged in four quadrants, two dorso-lateral and two ventro-lateral, an arrangement which recalls that of the Nematoda, whilst in their histology they somewhat resemble the muscles of the Oligochaeta.
Under the Post-Tertiary division come the records of the Ice Age, when Scotland was buried under sheets of ice which ground down, striated and polished the harder rocks over the whole country, and left behind them the widespread accumulation of clay, gravel and sand known as Glacial Deposits.
One of the most interesting facts in the history of the Gondwana series is the occurrence near the base (in the Talchir group) of large striated boulders in a fine mud or silt, the boulders in one place resting upon rock (of Vindhyan age) which is also striated.
In China, on the Yang-tse river, a thick deposit has been found full of boulders of diverse kinds of rock, striated.
These formations lie at the base of the lowest Cambrian strata and may possibly be included in the pre-Cambrian, though in Norway they are clearly resting upon a striated floor of crystalline rocks.
Each consists of a globular capsule pierced at one or two points for the entrance of nerves which end in a central cup-shaped " striated body."
The faces s are striated parallel to their edge of intersection with r; this serves to distinguish r and z, and thus, in the absence of x faces, to distinguish leftor right-handed crystals.
Sometimes they float above the surface, sometimes they are connected with it by stems or branches, and they show delicate striated detail like cirrus cloud.
It is full of huge glaciated blocks, and in different regions (Prieska chiefly) the underlying pavement is remarkably striated and shows that the ice was moving southward.
The muscular fibres of the jaws are transversely striated, the other muscles are unstriated.
This brown striated coal glows with fissures of opal, brilliant insights of purple amethyst.
The following sections will illustrate how Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ are involved in striated muscle 's structures and functions.
The inner surface of the bark is smooth, of a pale, yellowish brown and very finely striated.
Striated Heron (Butorides striatus) - common upriver (Tendaba, Georgetown ).
When examined with the microscope, by means of the usual section method, they are seen to consist of a labyrinthine tube lined with peculiar cells, each cell having a deep vertically striated border on the surface farthest from the lumen, as is seen in the cells of some renal organs.
They obtain food entirely by osmosis through the striated cuticle, and this food consists not of blood, as in flukes, but of chyle, by which they are bathed in their favourite site, the small intestine.
Their striated appearance is due to the many long folds of the cell membrane.
Striated ducts - ducts which carry saliva from the intercalated ducts to a series of main collecting ducts.
The junction of the Pyg Track is marked by a conspicuous striated boulder.
She could see the clouds shifting as he bent his head again, watch the long striated patterns of shadow and light.
Striated Heron (Butorides striatus) - Common upriver (Tendaba, Georgetown).
The two different types of muscles are smooth and striated.
Striated muscles are voluntary muscles used for activities such as chewing and walking.
The faces of the cube are striated parallel to one diagonal, and alternate corners are sometimes replaced by faces of a tetrahedron.
Its striated plumage also favours this view, as an evidence of permanent immaturity or generalization of form, since striped feathers are so often the earliest clothing of many of these birds, which only get rid of them at their first moult.
These muscles are not striated, as they are in the Arthropoda.
The rhombic faces of the dodecahedron are often striated parallel to the longer diagonal.
Numerous glacial marks, however, such as polished striated rocks, moraines, erratic blocks, &c., prove that the whole of Greenland, even the small islands and skerries outside the coast, has once been covered by the inland ice.
It is usually a hard compact rock containing striated stones.
Sixteen of these alabaster scarfs hang side by side in Hovey's Balcony, three white and fine as crape shawls, thirteen striated like agate with every shade of brown, Luray Cavern.