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Word Meanings - STERNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

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  • SOMITE
    One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.
  • ARTHROPODA
    A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.
  • ARTHROPOD
    One of the Arthropoda.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • EPSOMITE
    Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.
  • 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.
  • ANARTHROPODOUS
    Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.
  • 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.
  • PROTOSOMITE
    One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
  • ANARTHROPODA
    One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.
  • ENTOSTERNUM
    See A

 

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