Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To mark with striae or striations.
- adjective Marked with striae; striped, grooved, or ridged.
- adjective Consisting of a stria or striae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the corpus striatum.
- To mark with striæ; cause striation in; score; stripe.
- Striped or streaked; marked with striæ; scored with fine lines; striped, as muscle; striated.
- Having a thread-like form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark with striaæ.
- adjective Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
mark something withstriations . - adjective
striated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with striae or striations
- adjective marked with stria or striations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From the LGN the signal goes to the striate cortex, zone 17, and then through the rest of the visual cortex, through zones 18 and 19.
Sugar and Saline 2009
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This illusion demonstrates the effect of some simple image processing occurring at the retina combined with some complex processing in the cortical cells of the striate cortex.
Café Wall Illusion James Gurney 2009
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The apparent tilt of the mortar lines is caused by orientation-sensitive simple cells in the striate cortex.
Café Wall Illusion James Gurney 2009
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The Association of Feed Control Officials defines "meat" in pet foods as "striate muscle which is skeletal or that which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart, or in the esophagus; with or without the accompanying and overlying fat and the portions of the skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels."
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The development of synapses in striate cortex of man.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel's (1962) Nobel Prize-winning work establishing the receptive fields of neurons in striate cortex is often interpreted as revealing cells whose function is edge detection.
The Philosophy of Neuroscience Bickle, John 2006
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The development of synapses in striate cortex of man.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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When I studies sensation and perception a while ago so I may be out of date, for example, the striate cortex which is the higher order visual feature recognition engine at the back of the brain detected edges at different special frequencies and orientations.
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If the striate cortex does not function you can react to something the moves with out being able to “see” it.
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Marshall next collaborated with John Talbott and mapped the retinal inputs in the striate cortex.
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