sternum
23
4.1
- noun
- /ˈstɜrnəm/
- Specialized
:
esternón
- Possible fractured sternum.
- ribs and sternum
- sternum and laryngeal prominence
- shoulders and sternum
And so they turn on the MRI machine and it goes just right into a sternum.
- And so they turn on the MRI machine and it goes just right into a sternum.
- Apparently it was badly mutilated, and it had a weird almost like a spine on the front, like we have a sternum that you could see, like a bumpy thing.
- And as I leapt up to give him a hug on the stilts of my feet, my face was on a sternum.
- My face landed right on his sternum and I was stilted at my height, on my toes.
- And it's like right here to the right of my sternum in the middle of my chest above my nipple towards the middle.
- The way that the ancients taught us to move our awareness from our head into our heart is by simply physically touching your sternum just above your heart.
- OK, well pump handle means the front of your chest, your sternum is going up like a pump and bucket handle is like the sides expand.
- But he jumped and we knew that his sternum was was crushed.
- Now look, if your sternum is moving around, you need to stop watching this stupid video and go to a hospital immediately.
- He was so tall that at my height, as I hugged him, my face was on his sternum.
- Oh, but you got your sternum here, which protects your heart, and then you got your actual shoulder, which has all these little parts in it to keep it working.
- OK, I have enough confidence in my sternum to bite down.
- Let's get into people's juju, you know, crack open that sternum, get them aorta stumping.
Examples
-
Force broke two ribs and the sternum.
-
There seems to be a foreign mass under the sternum.
-
Start up here at the sternum and then go down.
-
To the right of her sternum.
-
And now bring your attention back to the center of the chest, in the sternum, on the surface of the chest.
-
The raised sternum is also a feature of correct suspension, as discussed earlier.
Academic text (2008) -
Oh, but you got your sternum here, which protects your heart, and then you got your actual shoulder, which has all these little parts in it to keep it working.
-
Experiment with lifting your sternum and lowering your shoulders.
Academic text (2008) -
Furthermore, the right ventricle is immediately behind the sternum, which makes it more vulnerable to blunt trauma.
Academic text (2016) -
The surgeon then opened her sternum and started removing the tumors from her lungs.
Synonyms
6
3.4
A flat chest bone that the ribs and collarbones join and that protects the heart and lungs
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sternum comes from an old Greek word sternon meaning 'chest', and it names the long, flat 'breastbone' in the center of the chest. So sternum literally points to the bone that connects the ribs and helps protect the heart and lungs.