Word Meanings - INFRASTERNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

Related words: (words related to INFRASTERNAL)

• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACH
  1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• INFRASTERNAL
  Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.
• STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
• 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
• BELOW
  1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. 2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison. 3. Unworthy of; unbefitting;
• STOMACHLESS
  1. Being without a stomach. 2. Having no appetite. Bp. Hall.
• 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.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• 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.
• FURBELOW
  A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
• 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.