Sternum Definition

stûrnəm
sterna, sternums
noun
sterna, sternums
The thin, flat structure of bone and cartilage to which most of the ribs are attached in the front of the chest in most vertebrates; breastbone.
Webster's New World
The ventral portion of a body segment of an arthropod.
American Heritage Medicine

The breastbone.

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Other Word Forms of Sternum

Noun

Singular:
sternum
Plural:
sternums

Origin of Sternum

  • 1660, from Neo-Latin sternum, from Ancient Greek στέρνον (stérnon, “chest, breastbone, heart"), from Proto-Indo-European *stern- (“forehead, chest, side"). Related to Old English steorn (“forehead"), German Stirn (“forehead").

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin from Greek sternon breast, breastbone ster-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sternum Sentence Examples

  • The last I to 5 of these vertebrae have movable ribs which do not reach the sternum, and are called cervico-dorsals.

  • They are attached from your sternum or breastbone to the top of each of your upper arms.

  • The median and posterior extension of the body of the sternum is a direct outgrowth of the latter, therefore FIG.

  • Often it reaches the keel of the sternum, with subsequent syndesmosis or even synostosis, e.g.

  • Respiratory organs tracheal, opening by a pair of stigmata situated immediately behind the basal segments of the 6th pair of appendages on what is probably the sternum of the 2nd opisthosomatic somite and also in some cases upon the 5th segment of the legs.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTE

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MUMNUM

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