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Meanings of sternum in English

Russian
грудная кость
Portuguese
esterno
Catalan
estèrnum
Spanish
esternon
Wikidata

Flat bone in the middle front part of the rib cage.

        грудная кость
        Russian
        стернит
        Spanish
        esternon

        Ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen.

              стернит
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              Examples for "sterna"
              Examples for "sterna"
              1
              The fish were attended by flocks of terns and noddies, the former the beautiful Sterna melanauchen.
              Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
              2
              Tern, sooty (Sterna fuliginosa).
              Winter Sunshine
              3
              A few days afterwards, while 480 miles from the nearest land, we caught a beautiful tern (Sterna melanorhyncha) hitherto considered to be peculiar to Australia.
              Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
              1
              MhTPS expression is highly specific to tissues lining the cuticle of the abdominal sternites of mature males.
              Pubmed
              1
              MhTPS expression is highly specific to tissues lining the cuticle of the abdominal sternites of mature males.
              Pubmed
              Usage of sternum in English
              1
              A technician steps forward to cut the ribs, lifting the sternum free.
              Back on murder
              2
              She took Lucy's hand and pressed the warm palm to her sternum.
              Gutshot straight
              3
              For adolescent patients, the elevated sternum can be maintained by Kirschner's wires.
              Pubmed
              4
              Once assured they are not, return gaze to phone, thumbing it sternum-high.
              Reuters
              5
              My chest felt like I'd taken a major-league fastball in the sternum.
              Mob rules
              6
              It settled cold against her sternum, warming slowly between cloth and skin.
              The bone palace
              7
              There was a sternum in the middle of the chest, wasn't there?
              Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
              8
              The stag beetle's gigantic pincers pierce my flesh just below the sternum.
              Drood: a novel
              9
              The arm bones, clavicles, scapulae, sternum, vertebrae, and ribs were virtually pulverized.
              Bones of the Lost
              10
              I put the scarlet crosshairs on his sternum and squeezed the trigger.
              Side Jobs
              11
              I jab his sternum with my index finger, digging in my fingernail.
              Insurgent
              12
              Nora's head rested on the flesh between Frings's shoulder and his sternum.
              The vaults
              13
              The man barely flinched and drove his larger fist into Bryen's sternum.
              Sister of the dead
              14
              I went low, head into the sternum, my elbows out, legs driving.
              A killing night
              15
              The tenor was so heartbreaking, it drilled a hole through my sternum.
              Flash and Bones
              16
              Her sternoclavicular joints bilaterally and lower sternum were divided using an electric saw.
              Pubmed
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