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Meanings of sternum in English
Ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen.
Synonyms
Examples for "breastbone"
Examples for "breastbone"
1
Liett thrust down her breastbone several times, so hard that ribs cracked.
2
Without meaning to, Anna Pelli Cognani raised one hand to her breastbone.
3
At length she coughed, pounded a bit on her breastbone, and replied:
4
Odion plunged the blade into Njeri's breastbone and pried her ribcage open.
5
Margaret Adkins had been ripped open from her breastbone to her pubis.
Usage of sternum in English
1
A technician steps forward to cut the ribs, lifting the sternum free.
2
She took Lucy's hand and pressed the warm palm to her sternum.
3
For adolescent patients, the elevated sternum can be maintained by Kirschner's wires.
4
Once assured they are not, return gaze to phone, thumbing it sternum-high.
5
My chest felt like I'd taken a major-league fastball in the sternum.
6
It settled cold against her sternum, warming slowly between cloth and skin.
7
There was a sternum in the middle of the chest, wasn't there?
8
The stag beetle's gigantic pincers pierce my flesh just below the sternum.
9
The arm bones, clavicles, scapulae, sternum, vertebrae, and ribs were virtually pulverized.
10
I put the scarlet crosshairs on his sternum and squeezed the trigger.
11
I jab his sternum with my index finger, digging in my fingernail.
12
Nora's head rested on the flesh between Frings's shoulder and his sternum.
13
The man barely flinched and drove his larger fist into Bryen's sternum.
14
I went low, head into the sternum, my elbows out, legs driving.
15
The tenor was so heartbreaking, it drilled a hole through my sternum.
16
Her sternoclavicular joints bilaterally and lower sternum were divided using an electric saw.
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Translations for sternum
Portuguese
Sternum through the time
Sternum across language varieties
United States of America
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