adjective. Of, relating to, or near the sternum.

Of or pertaining to the sternum, especially the breast-bone of vertebrates: as, the sternal end of the clavicle; the sternal keel of a bird's breast-bone; sternal articulation; a sternal segment.

In Invertebrata, of or pertaining to a sternite; sternitic.

Ventral; hemal; on the ventral surface or aspect, where the sternum is situated; on the same side with the sternum; in man, anterior; in other animals, inferior: opposed to dorsal, tergal, or neural.

The hemapophysis of a rib, as distinguished from the pleurapophysis; that part of a bony jointed rib answering to the costal cartilage of a mammalian rib, reaching from the end of the pleurapophysis to the sternum or toward it, as distinguished from a vertebral rib, which is the pleurapophysis alone. See cuts under epipleura and interclavicle.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

adjective. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.

adjective. Of, relating to, or near the sternum.

adjective. of or relating to or near the sternum

"Using a technique called sternal skin conductance, doctors were able to positively identify hot flashes in males, a positive step toward providing therapy for those patients in need."

sternal band  sternal canal  sternal glands  sternal line  sternal region  

asternal  costosternal  episternal bar  episternal cartilage  substernal  

45degree  consignor  costal  forty-five-degree  forty-fourth