striatedadj.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 58 Whether these effluviums do flye by streated [sic; 1658 striated] Atomes and winding particles as Renatus des Cartes conceaveth; or [etc.] . View more context for this quotation

1705 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1954 This is a deep, thin,..finely striated Shell.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Striated Leaf, one with a number of longitudinal furrows on its surface.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xvi. 184 Young cross-bills..in their immature striated plumage..resemble the mature redpole.

1923 H. Crane Let. 2 Mar. (1965) 129 Striated with nuances, nervosities, that we are heir to.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Trumpet-shell The striated buccinum, with oblong tubercles.

1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 231 Striated Weesel.

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 209 Striated Monkey.

1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 142 Striated Grosbeak.

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 228 Mus Striatus (the Striated Mouse).

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica Table 472 Striated ipecacuanha. Psychotria emetica.

1840 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 86 Picus striolatus. The Striated Woodpecker.

1845 Catal. Lizards Brit. Mus. 23 The Striated Spine~tail. Acanthopyga striata.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 35 The Striated Fracture..consists of long narrow separable parts laid on or beside each other.

1846 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. iii. 199 When the striated Muscular Fibre is examined still more closely, it is found to contain an assemblage of very minute elements.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 204 When the striated Muscular Fibre is examined still more closely.

1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (1872) xii. 291 Muscle is of two kinds striated, or striped, and smooth, plain, or unstriated.

1959 W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. ii. 48 The muscular tissue in man and other vertebrates is of three chief types: (1) smooth, (2) cardiac, and (3) skeletal. The last two types frequently are referred to as striated because of the cross-striations on the fibers.

1982 Sci. Amer. June 48/2 It was found that in skeletal and cardiac muscle (which is called striated muscle because of its striped appearance in a micrograph) calcium binds to a protein called troponin c.

1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 100 In a well-exhausted receiver containing a small piece of phosphorus, the discharge is throughout its course striated by transverse non-luminous bands.

1882 C. W. Siemens Sci. Wks. (1889) III. 355 That a stria, with its attendant dark space, forms a physical unit of a striated discharge; that a striated column is an aggregate of such units formed by means of a step-by-step process.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 48/1 In the striated discharge we see..that recombination is greater than ionization in the bright parts, and less in the dark parts.

1942 J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ of Mod. Physics iii. 71 Small amounts of impurity in the gas affect the striated positive column greatly.

1973 J. Yarwood Electr. & Magn. xiv. 503 For a striated positive column, the number of ions per unit volume is least at the bright edge of the striation.