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单词 sternum
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sternum
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Your sternum is your breastbone, the flat plate at the top of your rib cage. Mammals and birds — and even arachnids, or spiders — have a sternum.
If you study human anatomy, you'll learn that the sternum is a long, flat, T-shaped bone made of fused segments. The rib cage attaches the sternum to the spine, or vertebrae. The word itself comes from the Greek sternon, "chest, breast, or breastbone," from a root that means "flat surface."
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sternum: sternums
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DJs blast deafening music in each room, the beat so loud it rattles your sternum and lungs.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Surgeons would remove parts of a woman’s rib cage and sternum in addition to the muscles of the chest wall.
Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016)
It had a bruised sternum and almost emaciated due to a lack of food.
BBC(Nov 18, 2016)
n the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs
Syn|Hyper
breastbone
bone, os
rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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