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streak

 [strēk]
a line, stria, or stripe.
angioid s's red to black irregular bands in the ocular fundus running outward from the optic disk.
primitive streak a faint white trace at the caudal end of the embryonic disk, formed by movement of cells at the onset of mesoderm formation, providing the first evidence of the embryonic axis. It eventually undergoes degenerative changes and disappears.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

streak

(strēk),
A line, stria, or stripe, especially one that is indistinct or evanescent.
[A.S. strica]
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streak

(strēk)
n.
1. A line, mark, smear, or band differentiated by color or texture from its surroundings.
2. Microbiology A sample of microorganisms that has been introduced into a solid culture medium by a needle drawn across its surface.
v. streaked, streaking, streaks
v.tr.
Microbiology To inoculate (a culture medium) with a streak.

streak′er n.
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streak

(strēk)
A line, stria, or stripe, especially one that is indistinct or evanescent.
[A.S. strica]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

streak

(strēk)
A line, stria, or stripe, especially one that is indistinct or evanescent.
[A.S. strica]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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As foam cells coalesce, they form fatty streaks and, ultimately, atheromatous plaque.
A macroscopically 'normal' aorta was defined as one in which the intimal surface of the vessel was smooth, glossy and of uniform colour, with no fatty streaks or other lesions.
A glass a day can protect your heart by stopping the production of endothelin-1, responsible for the fatty streaks in arteries.
Furthermore, several studies have shown that fetuses and children born of hypercholesterolemic mothers have an increased incidence of fatty streaks in the aorta.
The fruit also hampers hardening of the arteries by fatty streaks along blood vessel walls (arteriosclerosis) by helping to stop high cholesterol.
pneumoniae antigens or DNA in intimal thickening and fatty streaks of young adults and Alaskan Natives (the latter group at low risk for coronary atherosclerosis) supports an early microbial role in pathogenesis (30).
If you eat lots of greasy foods, ugly fatty streaks may already be building up in your arteries.
Claudio Napoli and colleagues showed in a previous study that fatty streaks, the earliest lesions of atherosclerosis, have already formed in fetal arteries.
Mechanism: Insulin resistance 1 - Hyperinsulinemia 2 - Increased VLDL triglyceride 5 - Decreased HDL-cholesterol - Hypertension 4 * Inhibitor: - Normal insulin levels 1 (Moderate alcohol consumption) Mechanism: Pathogenic levels of LDL 5 * Inhibitors: - Increased plasma HDL (Moderate alcohol consumption) 2 - (Resveratrol in wine) 3 Mechanism: Oxidation of native LDL 7 * Inhibitors: - HDL in intima 5 - Anti-oxidants in red wine 4 Mechanism: Deposition of lipids in macrophages, foam cells & fatty streaks 8 9 10 * Inhibitor: Removal of lipids by HDL 6 White on black numbers signify factors related to alcohol consumption that appear to inhibit lipid infiltration of coronary arteries.
Page 389: Wherever they saw fatty streaks (an early state of atherosclerosis), they also found a deficiency in EFAs (Parent Essential Oil's LA).
Oryzanol decreases cholesterol absorption and aortic fatty streaks in hamsters.
Classification of lesions was done on gross examination, according to scoring criteria14: 0=Nil lesion, 1=One to two fatty streaks, 2=Three to five fatty streaks, 3 = More than five fatty streaks, 4=Atheromatous plaque.
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