STERNUM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

2.
n.

The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.


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