Definition of manubrium in English:
manubrium
nounPlural manubriums, Plural manubria məˈn(j)uːbrɪəmməˈno͞obrēəm
Anatomy Zoology 1A handle-shaped projection or part.
Example sentencesExamples
- The lenticular process is substantially longer than the arm of the manubrium which connects the tympanum to the articular facet.
- The retroarticular process of the articular persists only as the tiny manubrium which remains in contact with the tympanic membrane as it presumably did in Probainognathus.
- Some twenty minutes after the accident the patient used a spoonlike earpick to remove a bony fragment from deep in his ear canal and we identified this as the malleus that had been fractured at its manubrium.
- The manubrium sometimes extends to the insertion of the third costal cartilages.
- 1.1 The broad upper part of the sternum of mammals, with which the clavicles and first ribs articulate.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's just possible to make out the Angle of Louis, the ridge in the middle of the sword-shaped breastbone where its immature plates, the manubrium and sternal body fused.
- All rhinolophoids have an ossified first costal cartilage fused to the manubrium and first rib.
- The right and left parts of the muscle are joined by a tendon that arises from the manubrium of the sternum.
- This approach involves incising the skin and subcutaneous tissue overlying the sternum, sawing longitudinally through the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process of the sternum, and cutting into the pericardial sacs.
- The medial-caudal migration pathway forms the thymopharyngeal tract, which runs from the angle of the mandible to the manubrium of the sternum bilaterally.
- 1.2 The tube which bears the mouth of a coelenterate.
Derivatives
adjective
Anatomy Zoology In other cases, the union of the two halves occurs in the manubrial region but fails distally.
Example sentencesExamples
- Note the absence of the manubrial, sternal, and costal portions of pectoralis major in the illustrations on the right and left sides of this figure (the illustration of the individual in the center has a congenital absence of the penis).
- On physical examination, the patient was a healthy-appearing boy with an ill-defined swelling at the manubrial portion of his sternum.
Origin
Mid 17th century (in the sense 'handle'): from Latin, 'haft'.