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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
- Longitudinal striations are accentuated ridges in the nail surface that can occur as a normal part of the aging process.
- These striations are minute furrows or depressed lines, and form one of the characters of the species, being much more prominent than on the cap of the ink-cap. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
- Striations of thick epicuticular wax are present on both adaxial and abaxial epidermal cells.
- Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcomas have more uniform, deeply eosinophilic cytoplasm and display cell-to-cell molding and cross-striations by light microscopy.
- Males in breeding plumage have gray and black striations on their bodies and heads, and black rumps.
- Sharp, low ridges delimit fusiform areas along the body surface with fine transverse striation recognizable in places.
- Cross-striations were present within the cytoplasm on hematoxylin-eosinstained sections and were highlighted by trichrome stain.
- Utterly maintenance free, it's a warm natural finish, sometimes with salmon- or ochre-colored striations, and can be troweled smooth or scraped vertically for a rough finish.
- With its stepped projections and striations of garbage and wood, this baroque construction evoked a geological formation of layered rock and sediment.
- The cells are termed ‘smooth’ because they lack the regular bands or striations which are prominent in skeletal muscle fibres and cardiac muscle cells.
