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STRIATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked with stria or striations

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

stria (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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with striae or striations

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "striate" is one way to...):

mark (make or leave a mark on)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

stria (a stripe or stripes of contrasting color)

stria (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)

striation (a stripe or stripes of contrasting color)

striation (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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 Context examples: 

In a minority of cases, the sarcomatous component contains heterologous elements including striated muscle, cartilage, and fat.

(Adenosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The striated muscle tissue of the heart enveloped by the epicardium and the endocardium.

(Myocardium, NCI Thesaurus)

An alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma characterized by the presence of large striated muscle cells with clear cytoplasm, giant cells with myoblastic differentiation, and fibrovascular septa.

(Conventional Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Metaxalone has no direct effect on the contractile mechanisms of striated muscle, the motor end plate, or the nerve fiber.

(Metaxalone, NCI Thesaurus)

A cardiac rhabdomyoma characterized by the presence of neoplastic large striated muscle cells with clear cytoplasm and spider cells.

(Conventional Cardiac Rhabdomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of striated skeletal muscle fiber that contracts quicker than a red fiber but slower than a white fiber and contains only a moderate amount of mitochondria, myoglobin and sarcoplasm.

(Intermediate Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)

The muscle tissue of the HEART composed of striated, involuntary muscle known as cardiac muscle.

(Heart Muscle, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Mutation of the gene is associated with bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, ichthyosis hystrix Curth-Macklin type, palmoplantar keratoderma non-epidermolytic, ichthyosis annular epidermolytic and palmoplantar keratoderma striate type 3.

(KRT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Methocarbamol has no direct effect on the contractile mechanism of striated muscle, the motor end plate or the nerve fiber.

(Methocarbamol, NCI Thesaurus)

Driven primarily by voltage-gated Ca+2 action potentials originating in sinoatrial pace-maker cells, Cardiac Muscle Contraction involves shortening of the gap junction-linked nonsyncytial striated heart myocytes in the atrial and ventricular chambers that forces movement of the blood through the circulatory system.

(Cardiac Muscle Contraction, NCI Thesaurus)