Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - sternum
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(sternums) Your sternum is the long flat bone which goes from your throat to the bottom of your ribs and to which your ribs are attached. (MEDICAL) = breastbone N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~s or sterna) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek sternon chest, breastbone; akin to Old High German stirna forehead, Latin sternere to spread out — more at strew Date: 1667 a compound ventral bone or cartilage of most vertebrates other than fishes that connects the ribs or the shoulder girdle or both and in humans consists of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process — called also breastbone ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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- 1667, from Gk. sternon "man's chest," related to stornynai "to spread out" (see strew), on the notion of the chest as broad and flat, as opposed to the neck. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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