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Word Meanings - MESOSTERNUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.

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  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • PORTIONIST
    One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
  • MIDDLE-GROUND
    That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
  • MIDDLER
    One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
  • MIDDLE-AGE
    Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediƦval.
  • MIDDLEMOST
    Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
  • PORTION
    1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard
  • PORTIONER
    See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions.
  • PORTIONLESS
    Having no portion.
  • 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
  • MIDDLE-AGED
    Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
  • DISPROPORTIONALLY
    In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
  • IMPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportionate.
  • DISPROPORTIONABLE
    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPROPORTIONALITY
    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
  • PROPORTIONATE
    Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
  • 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.
  • REAPPORTIONMENT
    A second or a new apportionment.
  • MISPROPORTION
    To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
  • DISPROPORTIONATE
    Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
  • HYPOSTERNUM
    See HYPOPLASTRON
  • PRESTERNUM
    The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
  • PROPORTION
    1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
  • PROPORTIONABLE
    Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
  • IMPROPORTIONABLE
    Not proportionable. B. Jonson.

 

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