The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs.
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Examples for "sternum "
Examples for "sternum "
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 .
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.
6 The gray one shattered Schedrin's breastbone and gnawed in after the heart.
7 The cold fear spread through my chest and curled around my breastbone .
8 She dropped her fork and napkin on the table, her breastbone smarting.
9 Just to the left of your breastbone , a little above the diaphragm.
10 Every heartbeat pinched her breastbone , her every muscle was tight and thrumming.
11 She was very tired, the tiredness like a weight against her breastbone .
12 Owen had cut the cartilages to separate the ribs from the breastbone .
13 He kicked her just below the breastbone , knocking her on her back.
14 She pats her breastbone to denote the rapid beating of a heart.
15 His head was heavy and his chin had sunk to his breastbone .
16 It surged up inside him, just under his breastbone - soft ,wet ,andfull.
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Breastbone в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки