Word Meanings - ASTERNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

Related words: (words related to ASTERNAL)

• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
• LATISTERNAL
  Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.
• 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
• METASTERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
• HESTERN; HESTERNAL
  Pertaining to yesterday. See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.
• 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.
• MESOSTERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.
• ASTERNAL
  Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join 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.
• INFRASTERNAL
  Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.
• 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.