Crossword clues for sternum
sternum
- Bone is hard? I'm pondering
- Bone in back - er, it's one at the front!
- Bone in grave: I'm not sure
- Body part problem the drink regularly feeds
- It's found between breasts and rear ends when one goes topless
- Hard lump pared down to reveal bone
- Chest bone
- Clavicle neighbor
- Ribs holder
- Rib cage part
- Rib cage centre bone
- Munster (anag) — flat bone in the chest
- Human bone — ten rums (anag)
- Breast bone
- Chest protector
- Rib connection
- Breastbone
- It sticks to the ribs
- Chest part
- What sticks to your ribs?
- The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs
- A few mentioned pinching diver's bone
- Strict master leaves relative a bone
- Something in chest to check when entertaining wild run
- Rubbish bags leaking at home, first of all
- Reckoning to eat a bird - part of the breast
- Part of the rib cage
- Bone not yielding useful material initially
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"breastbone," 1660s, from Greek sternon "chest, breast, breastbone" (in Homer, only of males), also "the breast as the seat of affections," related to stornynai "to spread out," from PIE *ster-no- "to stretch, extend," from root *stere-, *ster- "to spread," related to stornynai "to spread out" (see structure (n.)), on the notion of the chest as broad and flat, as opposed to the neck. Related: Sternal.
Wiktionary
n. The breastbone.
WordNet
n. the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs [syn: breastbone]
[also: sterna (pl)]
Wikipedia
The sternum (pl. "sterna") is the ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen.
In insects, the sterna are usually single, large sclerites, and external. However, they can sometimes be divided in two or more, in which case the subunits are called sternites, and may also be modified on the terminal abdominal segments so as to form part of the functional genitalia, in which case they are frequently reduced in size and development, and may become internalized and/or membranous.
Ventrites are externally visible sternites. Usually the first sternite is covered up, so that vertrite numbers do not correspond to sternid numbers.
The term is also used in other arthropod groups such as crustaceans, arachnids and myriapods. Sternites on the pleon (abdomen) of a crustacean may be referred to as pleonsternites. These are the sites of attachment of the pleopods (swimming legs). In spiders, the sternum is the ventral part of the cephalothorax.
The sternum or breastbone is a long flat bone shaped like a necktie located in the center of the chest. It connects to the ribs via cartilage, forming the front of the rib cage, and thus helps to protect the heart, lungs, and major blood vessels from injury. The sternum consists of three regions: the manubrium, the body, and the xiphoid process.
The word sternum originates from the Greek στέρνον, meaning chest.
Usage examples of "sternum".
There is recorded an inexplicable case of menstruation from the region of the sternum, and among the curious anomalies of menstruation must be mentioned that reported by Parvin seen in a woman, who, at the menstrual epoch, suffered hemoptysis and oozing of blood from the lips and tongue.
The postmortem examination showed that the ball had pierced the sternum just above the xiphoid cartilage, and had entered the pericardium to the right and at the lower part.
Galen also adds, that upon one occasion he removed a portion of carious sternum and found the pericardium in a putrid state, leaving a portion of the heart naked.
Center the reticle his sternum, move it six inches right: windage allowance.
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They had made port in Oy sterna ven, but the boat had sunk at dockside.
Duke-not that much, anyway, but Sterna would have given Colaris all the fields on the north side of the Ohyde River, almost the whole Ohyde Valley, and then where would we have been?
A framework for the thorax is supplied by the ribs which connect with the spinal column behind and with the sternum, or breast-bone, in front.
There is recorded an inexplicable case of menstruation from the region of the sternum, and among the curious anomalies of menstruation must be mentioned that reported by Parvin seen in a woman, who, at the menstrual epoch, suffered hemoptysis and oozing of blood from the lips and tongue.
The ribs at the sides, the sternum in front, and the twelve dorsal bones of the spinal column behind, bound the thoracic cavity, which contains the lungs, heart, and large blood-vessels.
Muirhead cites an instance in which a firm, broad strip of cartilage resembling sternomastoid extended from below the left ear to the left upper corner of the sternum, being entirely separate from the jaw.
Kingsley snipped through the wire sutures holding the split sternum together.
She'd reached through the fencing that saved her life when it absorbed the reflexive buttstroke that would have crushed her sternum and flung her backwards.
The elasticized neckline of her blouse revealed a chest so thin that her sternum and costal cartilages were outlined like one of those joke T-shirts.
Placing his fingers back on her sternum, he began performing the chest compressions that he hoped would get her heart going again.