Definition of "striated" []

• Having parallel lines or grooves on the surface. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of striate. (verb)

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• "One can merely conclude that there is some degree of biochemical similarity between the ganglion cells of the whole involuntary system and the terminations of voluntary nerve fibres in striated muscle, on the one hand, and the mechanism connected with the peripheral terminations of craniosacral involuntary (i.e. parasympathetic) nerves on the other."
• "A strange bird of prey called the striated caracaras."
• "The apex of this cone is prolonged into an exceedingly small tube, that enters a striped spindle-like body called the striated spindle; the entire structure is called a visual rod."