Words Like STERNUM
We have put together a list of words that are similar to STERNUM.
3 Alternative Words Similar to sternum
4 definitions of sternum
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The breast-bone of man and many other vertebrates; a bone or longitudinal series of bones in the middle line of the ventral aspect of the body, chiefly in its thoracic section, completing the thoracic wall by articulation with more or fewer ribs, or elements of the scapular arch, or both: theoretically, in Owen's system, the hemal spines of a series Of vertebræ.
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In arthropods, as insects and crustaceans, a median sternal or ventral sclerite of any somite of the cephalothorax, thorax, or abdomen; a sternite: the opposite of a tergite or notum.
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the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs