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Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

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.

by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, . . . Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong. Dryden. These are arts, my prince, In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome. Addison.

Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis (Med.), a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by crowing or stridulous breathing.

Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridæ. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the a…

Situated under the arytenoid cartilage of the larynx.

A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.

Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium of some animals.

nds or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.

A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] Johnson. Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]

d in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

d in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.