Crossword clues for sternums
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sternum \Ster"num\, n.; pl. L. Sterna, E. Sternums. [NL., from Gr. ?, the breast, chest.]
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(Anat.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or with both. In man it is a flat bone, broad anteriorly, narrowed behind, and connected with the clavicles and the cartilages of the seven anterior pairs of ribs. In most birds it has a high median keel for the attachment of the muscles of the wings.
(Zo["o]l.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "sternums".
There was very little real movement for long minutes as they struggled, fingers grasping wrists, elbows against sternums, a kind of perverse engine, stifling on its own energy output.
She was spared the fate of hundreds all about her who died of broken necks, crushed windpipes, shattered sternums, and multiple fractures that severed their arteries, nerves, and organs.
Two Russian sternums were cracked and the bones driven backwards into two Russian hearts.