NOUN
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
How To Use crenation In A Sentence
- For one, maintaining a constant water potential of tissue fluid prevents osmotic damage to cells, either by cell lysis or crenation. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
- Their small crenations guaranteed an easy perforation of skin.
- Leaf shape is somewhat variable in Swamp White Oak in terms of how shallow or deep the spaces are between the crenations or lobes on the margin.
- Marine amoebae are not in danger of lysis or crenation because seawater and their cytoplasm are isotonic.
- Moreover, the present invention will prevent the destruction of red blood cells accelerated by the crenation.
- Extensive crenation of superficial muscular and fascial tissue secondary to disruptor damage. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
