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STRIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does striate mean?
• STRIATE (adjective)
The adjective STRIATE has 1 sense:
1. marked with stria or striations
Familiarity information: STRIATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• STRIATE (verb)
The verb STRIATE has 1 sense:
1. mark with striae or striations
Familiarity information: STRIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it striates Past simple: striated
Past participle: striated
-ing form: striating
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)
Context examples
It is characterized by the morphologic features of a medulloblastoma and the presence of a striated muscle component.
(Medullomyoblastoma with Myogenic Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)
The middle one third of the esophagus in which the muscle layer is composed of muscle cells of the striated and smooth types.
(Middle Third of the Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)
Ubiquitous supportive tissue adjacent to epithelium and around smooth and striated muscle cells.
(Basement Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
The tiny tubules with a very thin epithelial layer in the salivary glands running from the salivary acini into the striated duct.
(Intercalated Duct of the Salivary Gland System, NCI Thesaurus)
A hepatoblastoma characterized by the presence of mixed epithelial and mesenchymal components and additional tissues such as striated muscle, bone, epithelial tissues, and melanin pigment.
(Mixed Hepatoblastoma with Teratoid Features, NCI Thesaurus)
The striated muscle tissue is further subdivided into skeletal, visceral striated, and cardiac muscle.
(Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)
The more common mesodermal components include cartilage, bone, fat and muscle (both smooth and striated).
(Central Nervous System Mature Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
The tiny tubules with a very thin epithelial layer in the pancreas running from the pancreatic acini into the striated duct.
(Intercalated Duct of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)
Only known molecule associated with the striated coat that decorates the inside of caveolar membranes.
(Caveolin 1, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of neoplastic striated muscle cells with eosinophilic granular cytoplasm and increased cellularity.
(Adult Cardiac Cellular Rhabdomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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