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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or near the sternum.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, relating to, or near the sternum.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to the sternum, especially the breast-bone of vertebrates: as, the sternal end of the clavicle; the sternal keel of a bird's breast-bone; sternal articulation; a sternal segment.

In Invertebrata, of or pertaining to a sternite; sternitic.

Ventral; hemal; on the ventral surface or aspect, where the sternum is situated; on the same side with the sternum; in man, anterior; in other animals, inferior: opposed to dorsal, tergal, or neural.

The hemapophysis of a rib, as distinguished from the pleurapophysis; that part of a bony jointed rib answering to the costal cartilage of a mammalian rib, reaching from the end of the pleurapophysis to the sternum or toward it, as distinguished from a vertebral rib, which is the pleurapophysis alone. See cuts under epipleura and interclavicle.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to or near the sternum

Word Usage

"Using a technique called sternal skin conductance, doctors were able to positively identify hot flashes in males, a positive step toward providing therapy for those patients in need."

Cross Reference

sternal canal sternal rib sternal region sternal line sternal band

Form

episternal bar substernal asternal costosternal episternal cartilage

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