Word Meanings - PRESTERNUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• MANUBRIUM
  A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.
• SEGMENTAL
  1. Relating to, or being, a segment. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct , the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives
• 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
• ANTERIOR
  1. Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies
• SEGMENTED
  Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
• ANTERIORLY
  In an anterior manner; before.
• 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.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• 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.
• METASTERNUM
  The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.
• XIPHISTERNUM
  The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process. The xiphiplastron. -- Xiph"i*ster"nal a.
• DESEGMENTATION
  The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.