Noun, : striae of muscle fiber. From Dictionary.com.
There are many, many cosmetics that claim to heal or repair stretch marks, otherwise known as striae distensae. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Stretch Marks (also known as striae graridarum) occur in the dermis, the elastic, resilient middle layer that allows skin to retain its shape. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference
During pregnancy, women are at an elevated risk for developing stretch marks, also called striae, because of the rapid and sudden growth of their body. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get Rid of Stretch Marks -Stretch Marks Treatment] Reference
In expectant women, stretch marks are called striae gravidarum and occur when the skin is stretched because of the deposition of fat in the body as the pregnancy advances. From Wordnik.com. [Tips and Answers] Reference
When the wart finally goes away, your striae never look quite the same. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Interstitial line: the elevated ridge between two striae or series of punctures. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Interspaceal: occurring in the interspaces between two wing veins or two elytral striae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Intersegmental: = interarticular; q.v. Interspace: Coleopteran; the plane surface between elytral striae. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
In such cases they find the rocks smoothed and polished, but here and there marked with long grooves and striae. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It has been clinically shown to improve the appearance of striae (stretch marks) and regulate epidermal (skin) cell growth. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get Rid of Stretch Marks -Stretch Marks Treatment] Reference
WHAT A DOCTOR CALLS THEM: striae gravidarum (pregnancy stretch marks), striae albae (white stretch marks), or striae rubrae (red stretch marks). From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
It is true that they usually start off as striae rubrae and mature into striae albae, but one is not worse or more difficult to treat than another. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference
Small red bumps (called vascular spiders) may appear on the skin of your upper body, along with stretch marks (striae gravidarum) on your abdomen, thighs, or breasts. From Wordnik.com. [Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn] Reference
It had weakened structurally over the centuries; he could fit the point of his pick under a corroded boss and pry off great creaking and grumbling striae of the stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The transport of local boulders shows that the ice must have moved from the south-east towards the north-west, which coincides with the direction indicated by the striae. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
This leaves purplish grooves that are medically called striae. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Page 281 which do not reach the hinge or umbo; many of the striae, however, fork or divide. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
In the central part the transverse striae on the muscular fibres were quite distinct; and it was. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
Black: oblique line near the thoracic angle obviously impressed; elytra with impunctured striae. —. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
While you spread your striae with Revitol during your pregnancy, you don't have one stretch mark to speak of. From Wordnik.com. Reference
These large boulders, and some smaller ones, are polished on one or more sides, and marked with glacial striae. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The shell is very different from those of the other nautili in being much more deeply indented with circular striae. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Shell thin, of a medium size, margins sub-equal, concentric, striae very fine, at intervals deep, beaks nearly central. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Heaps of superficial foam are also formed at intervals along the ledge, and are immediately drawn into long white striae. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The gneiss is often striated, all the striae looking one way -- sometimes north and south, and at other times east and west. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
External surface of the shaft, showing the transverse striae and jagged boundary, caused by the imbrications of the scaly cortex. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
It is readily distinguished by the absence of ribs proper, and the presence of coarse radiating striae, which have intermediate ones. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
We report on a 15-year-old boy with acrofrom upper limbs and mixed appearance of radiolucency, cysts and striae of fibro-chondromatosis. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The strained skin and the emotionless features (relieved only by telangiectatic striae) give the countenance a ghastly, corpse-like aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Towards the close of the eighteenth century a Swiss named Guinand at last succeeded in producing larger flint-glass discs free from striae. From Wordnik.com. [History of Astronomy] Reference
Then the syenite or granite seemed as if it had been melted, for it was all in striae, which striae, as they do elsewhere, run east and west. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
Smaller scratches and striae are made on the polished surface by crystals or projecting edges of the hardest minerals, just as a diamond cuts glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Mr. Flower found for me in some work that its one muscle (with striae) was supposed only to bring this bone back to its proper position after parturition. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
They were marked across the back with alternate striae of silver, and various shades of brown and black, though there were scarce two marked exactly alike. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
Yorkshire, and in Ireland, we must depend on proofs derived from glacial striae and the transportation of erratics for so much of the supposed submergence as exceeds 600 feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
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