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UK
/stɹaɪˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- 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
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a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps
chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands
How To Use striation In A Sentence
- Except for the striations on the connecting link, the Irish so-called mamillary fibulæ are almost always plain; but The Bronze Age in Ireland
- If you're going for a lean, shredded look, these types of exercises really help you achieve superior muscle separation and striation.
- Their underparts are mostly white, except for barring and striations along the rear of the birds.
- Richly figured rosewood with its dark striations became the wood of choice, although mahogany and fruitwoods were not entirely supplanted.
- An extensive residue of white kaolin clay pigment is preserved on the exterior surface, which also exhibits extensive striations and wear, apparently the result of the processing and working of the pigment on the dish.
- These striations indicate where the dentary was overlapped medially by the coronoids.
- Line scans were determined for portions of myofibrils that were straight, contained five or more sarcomeres, and had striations relatively perpendicular to the long axis of the myofibril.
- 83 On account of the striations of these cells the muscles which they form are called striated muscles. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
- The cross striations will be discussed in relation to striated skeletal muscle.
- The surface is longitudinally striate, the striations possibly representing fine veins.