crenation

名词 crenation:

1. one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
   同义词：scallop, crenature, crenel, crenelle

cre.na.tion

n.（名词）
A rounded projection, as on the margin of a shell.
钝锯齿：贝壳边上的圆形突起
The condition or state of being crenate.
圆齿状：成为圆齿形的状态或条件
A process resulting from osmosis in which red blood cells, in a hypertonic solution, undergo shrinkage and acquire a notched or scalloped surface.
红血球皱缩：一种渗透过程，红血球在高渗溶液中经历皱缩并形成V形、扇贝形边缘的表面