STRIA
\stɹˈa͡ɪə], \stɹˈaɪə], \s_t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_ə]\
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A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
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A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
By Oddity Software
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A stripe, band, or line, distinguished by color, texture, depression, or elevation from the tissue in which it is found.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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nerve fiber
- a threadlike extension of nerve cell Slender processes of neurons, especially the prolonged axons that conduct nerve impulses. One units trunk; it is axis process a neuron and medullated, i. e. white substance Schwann (myelin), medullated; either the medullated non-axis-cylinder or may not be surrounded by primitive sheath neurilemma, so that there are four forms of nerve-fibers.