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Body of sternum — Infobox Bone Name = Body of sternum Latin = corpus sterni GraySubject = 27 GrayPage = 120 Caption = Posterior surface of sternum. Caption2 = Lateral border of sternum. System = MeshName = MeshNumber = DorlandsPre = c 56 DorlandsSuf = 12260824 The … Wikipedia
Sternum — Infobox Bone Name = Sternum Latin = GraySubject = 27 GrayPage = 119 | Caption = Thoracic cage Caption2 = Posterior surface of sternum. Origins = Insertions = Articulations = MeshName = Sternum MeshNumber = A02.835.232.904.766 DorlandsPre = s 23… … Wikipedia
Body of vertebra — Bone: Body of vertebra A typical thoracic vertebra, viewed from above. (Body visible at top center.) … Wikipedia
Sternum — Anatomic name for the breast bone, the long flat bone in the upper middle of the front of the chest. The sternum articulates (comes together) with the cartilages of the first seven ribs and with the clavicle (collar bone) on either side. The… … Medical dictionary
sternum — /sterr neuhm/, n., pl. sterna / neuh/, sternums. 1. Anat., Zool. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the… … Universalium
body — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. torso (See body); solid, mass; group, assemblage; substance, bulk; main part. See whole, party. II Physical structure Nouns 1. body, anatomy, torso; carcass, cadaver, corpse, remains (See … English dictionary for students
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
sternum — n.; pl. sterna the breastbone: a flat bone, 15–20 cm long, extending from the base of the neck to just below the diaphragm and forming the front part of the skeleton of the thorax. The sternum articulates with the collar bones (see clavicle) and… … The new mediacal dictionary
sternum — Midventral platelike surface of body, situated posterodorsal to orbit [Hobbs and Jass, 1988]. Sternites of all body somites taken together, and abdomen; ventral segmented floor of thorax. (Syn. sternal plastron) [Moore and McCormick, 1969].… … Crustacea glossary
sternum — [ stə:nəm] noun (plural sternums or sterna nə) 1》 the breastbone. 2》 Zoology a thickened ventral plate on each segment of the body of an arthropod. Origin C17: mod. L., from Gk sternon chest … English new terms dictionary
