Word Meanings - SUPRASTERNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
Related words: (words related to SUPRASTERNAL)
- ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope. - SITUATE
To place. Landor. - ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - SITUATE; SITUATED
1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart. - 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 - ABOVE
1. In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above. 2. Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden. 3. Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above. - ANTERIORLY
In an anterior manner; before. - SITUATION
1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest - ABOVE-CITED
Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing. - 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. - 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.