The phrase "alternating areas" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe regions or sections that switch back and forth in a pattern or arrangement.
Example: "The design features alternating areas of light and dark colors to create visual interest."
Alternatives: "fluctuating zones" or "interchanging sections".
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) produces effacement and remodeling of the alveolar architecture, resulting in alternating areas of alveolar dilatation and collapse.
Organdy bedcovers could double as curtains: alternating areas of fine embroidered linen and organdy, joined with hemstitching (from about $209), or all organdy with restrained embroidery and appliqued borders (about $302).
It is as verdant as the pictures suggest, with alternating areas of great space and high canopy and other parts more snugly fit with natural pergolas.
In particular, unlike E. coli GyrA which has uniform positive charge within the DNA-binding groove (except for the DNA scission active site and sides of the neighboring 'towers'), the DNA-binding groove of S. pneumoniae ParC exhibits a pattern of alternating areas of positive and negative charge (compare Figures 4A and 4C).
Such alternating areas of dilatation and constriction are a common manifestation of small bowel infiltration[ 12].
Deposits by braided rivers contain alternating areas (lenses) of coarse gravel and sand with only minor inclusions of finer sediment.
It was thinner, less mineralized and exhibited an unusual wavy pattern with alternating area of presence/absence.
During penetration, the stroma branches, and this process creates areas of stroma alternating with areas of GREL cells/germ cells and hence produces the ovigerous cords, which are composed of GREL cells and germ cells.
From a bioinformatics perspective, SELDI tracings display silent areas alternating with hypervariable areas.
On slicing, a well defined nodule with partially firm, white and solid areas, alternating with haemorrhagic areas, was found.
Type I collagen matrix showed a heterogeneous pattern alternating between areas with moderate extracellular matrix and areas with very low collagen matrix.
