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To mark with striaæ. "Striated longitudinally." Owen.

riaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.

Having many streaks.

Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.

Nonstriated; unstriped.

le in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

ose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

ra inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. -- Sea partridge (Zoöl.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. -- Snow partridge (Zoöl.), a large…

The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

ed to the minute stryctural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

The quality or condition of being striated.

Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers.

Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances; hence, streaked; striated.

t. of Microscope. (b) The zona radiata. -- Zona radiata Etym: [NL.] (Biol.), a radiately striated membrane situated next the yolk of an ovum, or separated from it by a very delicate membrane only.