striate, striated

[Lat. striatus, pa. par. of strio =to streak; stria =a streak.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Marked with str iæ; marked or scored with superficial or very slender lines; marked with fine parallel lines. 2. Having a thread-like form. "These effluviums fly by striated atoms and winding particles, as Des Cartes conceiveth." - Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. ii., ch. ii. allel or wavy. II. Art: Disposed in ornamental lines, either par striated-fiber, s. Anat.: The primitive fibers composing ordinary muscle. They have two sets of markings; one longitudinal and the other transverse. In general, when IMG:content-0414.png:[blocks in formation] tion of being striated or marked with str iæ. Specifically- 1. Anat . & Physiol. The production of delicate spiral, longitudinal, and transverse str iæ on the cell wall, formed by the deposition within it of several layers, varying from each other in refractive power, or, in the case of plants, by the unequal absorption of water. 2. Geol .: The production of strise on rocks, boulders, ., by the pa age over them of blocks of ice with stones fixed in their lower part. [STRIATED ROCKS.]