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A hand litter. 2. An extension apparatus, ambulance s. A portable folding s. that may be carried in an ambulance, hospital s. A folding, rigid, or wheeled hand s. used for transportation of the sick in the hospital. [Old Eng., streechenj Stria (str i'ah). Gen. and pi. striae. A fine line (e. g., a ridge, or streak of color; especially one of a number of such lines when they are parallel). acoustic striae, auditory striae. A series of transverse white lines on the floor of the fourth ventricle at its lower part. They arise near the median line and extend outward, uniting with the auditory nerve roots, s. alba tuber is. A bundle of fibers, about 1 mm. broad, stretching quite superficially from the corpus mamillare over the tuber cinereum and disappearing beneath the chiasm some 4 or 5 mm. from the mesal border of the crusta. It turns outward beneath the optic tract to the fornix, of which it should be regarded as a detached fasciculus, s. cornea. See tenia semicircular is under tenia, striae et maculae atrophicae. So-called lineae albicantes. Whitish lines and spots which are seen on the skin, usually as a result of stretching as in pregnancy or suddenly occurring obesity, s. geroiinativa. See nasal genital points, under points, striae gravid arum. Lineae albicantes due to pregnancy, striae longitudinales cord is. Nearly vertical muscular fibers in the upper half of the posterior longitudinal furrow of the heart, striae longitudinales Liancisii. The nerves of Lancisi; anteroposterior white fibers on the upper surface of the corpus callosum on each side or the raphe, continuous with the peduncles of the septum lucidum. striae longitudinales later a les. Longitudinal white fibers near the margins of the corpus callosum parallel to the striae longitudinales mediates. s. longitudinal is medial is. The nerves of Lancisi; anteroposterior white fibers on the upper surface of the corpus callosum on each side of the raphe, s. medullar is ascendens. A white s. at the upper part of the floor of the fourth ventricle, regarded as an acce ory motor root of the trigeminal nerve or of the auditory nerve. s. medullar is thalami. An oblique furrow on the upper surface of the optic thalamus, striae of Retzius. Brown stripes parallel to the edge of a tooth, probably indicating the formation of the layers of enamel. striae of Schriger. Irregular lines cro ing the striae of Retzius. s. olfact or i a. One of the roots of the olfactory nerve, s. olfact or i a lateral is. The external root of the olfactory nerve, s. olfact or i a medial is. The internal root of the olfactory nerve, s. pineal is. The anterior peduncle of the pineal gland, s. semicircular is, striae semi luna res. See tenia semicircular is under tenia. striae trans ver sales (Will is i i). Transverse ridges upon the upper surface of the corpus callosum marking the general direction of its fibers, s. vascular is. The concave surface of the membranous cochlear canal where it is connected with the spiral ridge.] ligament of the cochlea. [Lat., stria, striate, striated ( str i'at, istri'a-ted). Striped, streaked, marked with striae. [Lat., striatus.~\