STRIA (striae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: striae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stria mean? 

• STRIA (noun)
  The noun STRIA has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

  Familiarity information: STRIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

stria; striation

Hypernyms ("stria" is a kind of...):

channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Derivation:

striate (mark with striae or striations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stripe or stripes of contrasting color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

band; banding; stria; striation

Context example:

the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps

Hypernyms ("stria" is a kind of...):

bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stria"):

collar ((zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal)

stretch mark (a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy))

Derivation:

striate (mark with striae or striations)

 Context examples 

The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a part of the extended amygdala, which is generally considered as a key player in stress response, fear and anxiety.

(The Secret Connection between Anxiety, Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The fourth layer of the cerebral cortex, composed of many densely packed granule cells with short axons and some small pyramidal cells, and traversed by a stria of horizontally arranged fibers.

(Internal Granular Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

Classic features include moon facies, buffalo hump, obesity, striae and adiposity.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus)

They focused on a part of this structure known as the bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST), which connects the extended amygdala to the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates sleep, appetite, and body temperature.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

The lower or ventral portion of the fourth ventricle transversed by the median sulcus with numerous nuclei and structures including the striae acusticae (or medullaris), fovea inferior and fovea superior, clava, obex, area postrema, and the trigonum hypoglossi and trigonum vagi.

(Floor of the Fourth Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)