sternum
胸骨,胸腔,颈椎病,颈椎
Definitions
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plural ster·na [stur-nuh], /ˈstɜr nə/, ster·nums.
- : Anatomy, Zoology. 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 clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- : the ventral surface of a body segment of an arthropod.
Examples
I slipped in and started to swim as best I could with a sternum that had been hacked apart a month before.
It’s lightweight and features chest and sternum straps that make it very possible to fish with it on your back all day even if you’re actively chasing fish.
I fractured my sternum, broke some ribs, collapsed my right lung, and broke my left thumb.
Diana Taurasi cannot come back from her sternum injury soon enough for Sandy Brondello’s team.
I dug my knees into the dirt, overlapped my hands, and placed the heel of my right hand on the monk’s sternum.
He lifted his t-shirt and showed us a long scar, running from sternum to waistband.
The point of the weapon was concealed by the sternum that it had penetrated with such surprising force.
Then you get a gander at the full monty, as it were, and he looks like someone inflated him from the sternum down.
He considers it the usual crazy talk until one night when his sternum is nearly crushed by a snarling, otherworldly apparition.
The indifferent pole is applied over the sternum or other convenient point.
This pouch, placed above the sternum, extends beneath the arm-holes, and communicates with the larynx.
A blister was then applied to the sternum, and six grains of calomel given in the evening.
On the 15th of November a blister was laid over the sternum, and ʒiss of oxymel scillitic.
But when we come to the determination of the sternum in fishes, difficulties abound, which Geoffroy solves in the following way.