tiger stripe

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English

Noun

tiger stripe (plural tiger stripes)

  1. A stretch mark.
  2. (sciences, medicine) A striated pattern on a sensor image that indicates movement or variation in scanned tissue or objects.
    • 2022, Najeeb Ullah Sofi, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mohit Sachan, Ramesh Thakur, “Tiger stripes in carditis of rheumatic origin”, in Heart Views, volume 23, number 4, page 230:
      Echocardiography revealed severe eccentric mitral regurgitation with multiple high-intensity signals (tiger stripes) on continuous wave (CW) Doppler. The patient was managed as rheumatic carditis with steroids. Repeat echocardiography after 1 month showed the resolution of tiger stripes.
    • 2023, Dania Tamimi, Specialty Imaging: Temporomandibular Joint and Sleep-Disordered Breathing, page 5569:
      Striated pattern of internal enhancement (tiger stripe sign) relatively specific for nonsuppurative tonsillitis
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tiger,‎ stripe.

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