Crossword clues for striated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Striate \Stri"ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Striated; p. pr. & vb. n. Striating.] [See Striate,
] To mark with stria[ae]. ``Striated longitudinally.''
--Owen.
Striate \Stri"ate\, Striated \Stri"a*ted\, a. [L. striatus, p. p. of striare to furnish with channels, from stria a channel.] Marked with stria[ae], or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
Wiktionary
Having parallel lines or grooves on the surface. v
(en-past of: striate)
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Usage examples of "striated".
Astonishingly, the woman hung onto the railing by one scarred leg, a knotted cord of striated muscle.
Soot-stained areas told where fire had been used, presumably in efforts to weaken the metal, and striated patches showed signs of acid-etchingall to no avail.
In addition to the artifacts, these collections contained vast quantities of spirally fractured, flaked, polished, cut, striated, and faceted bone.
They found that some of the bones had been abraded, faceted, striated, fractured, and flaked, becoming virtually identical to specimens from the Old Crow area that were suspected to have been modified by humans.
They differ from the voluntary muscles in not being striated, having no tendons, and in the net-work arrangements of their fibers.
The striated muscular tissue far exceeds the others in amount and forms all those muscles that can be felt from the surface of the body.
An examination of one of the striated muscles shows the individual fibers to lie parallel in small bundles, each bundle being surrounded by a thin layer of connective tissue.
They are also much smaller than the striated cells, being less than one one-hundredth of an inch in length and one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter.
While they do not contract so quickly, nor with such great force as the striated muscles, their work is more closely related to the vital processes.
The striated, or skeletal, muscles are nearly all arranged after the last-named plan.
The striated muscles, as a rule, are attached to the mechanical devices found in the skeleton, and bring about the voluntary, movements.
Compare the striated and non-striated muscles with reference to structure, location, and method of work.
In what respects is the muscular tissue of the heart like the striated, and in what respects like the non-striated, muscular tissue?
PRACTICAL WORK The reddish muscle found in a piece of beef is a good example of striated muscle.
On account of the striations of these cells the muscles which they form are called striated muscles.