sternum

How To Use sternum In A Sentence

• A horizontal line was drawn 5 mm perpendicular from the sternum keel of each print.
• The egg extended obliquely backward across the fly's prosternum.
• There is a characteristic pain from the sternum to the back with the catarrh and the cough.
• Bone of the cancellous type is found in the long bones, sternum, vertebrae and between layers of the cranium bones. We���re Born With 270 Bones. As Adults We Have 206
• In brief, a small incision was made on the skin below the xiphisternum towards the left from the midline.
• The broadness of the portunid sternum allows the appendages to project well beyond the lateral margins of the carapace and is an adaptation to the swimming habit which most portunids exhibit.
• They commence anteriorly at the sternum, in the interspaces between the cartilages of the true ribs, and at the anterior extremities of the cartilages of the false ribs, and extend backward as far as the angles of the ribs, whence they are continued to the vertebral column by thin aponeuroses, the posterior intercostal membranes. IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax
• As the bird lands and decelerates the weight of the pectoralis and sternocoricoideus muscles causes the sternum to swing ventrally, increasing the volume of the thorax.
• Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat. ABSOLUTE ZERO
• Imagine a straight line running from your chin to your sternum to your pubic bone.