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Word Meanings - INFRASTERNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

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  • STOMACHAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
  • STOMACH
    1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
  • STOMACHY
    Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
  • STOMACHER
    1. One who stomachs.
  • STOMACHFUL
    Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
  • STOMACHING
    Resentment.
  • STOMACHOUS
    Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
  • STOMACHIC
    A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
  • DEPRESSION
    The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
  • BELOWT
    To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
  • INFRASTERNAL
    Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.
  • STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
  • STERNUM
    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. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or
  • BELOW
    1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting;
  • STOMACHLESS
    1. Being without a stomach. 2. Having no appetite. Bp. Hall.
  • EPISTERNUM
    One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
  • HIGH-STOMACHED
    Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
  • HYPOSTERNUM
    See HYPOPLASTRON
  • PRESTERNUM
    The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
  • PROSTERNUM
    The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
  • FURBELOW
    A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
  • HYOSTERNUM
    See HYOPLASTRON
  • OMOSTERNUM
    The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage. In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.
  • MESOSTERNUM
    The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.
  • PRAEORAL; PRAEPUBIS; PRAESCAPULA; PRAESCUTUM; PRAESTERNUM
    See ETC (more info) Præ*ster"num, n.

 

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