Striation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. striated condition or appearance.
  2. a stria; one of many parallel striae.
  3. any of a number of scratches or parallel grooves on the surface of a rock, resulting from the action of moving ice, as of a glacier.
  4. any of the alternating light and dark crossbands that are visible in certain muscle fibers, especially of voluntary muscles, and are produced by the distribution of contractile proteins.
noun
  1. an arrangement or pattern of striae
  2. the condition of being striate
  3. another word for stria (def. 1)
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