Word Meanings - STERNO- - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.

Related words: (words related to STERNO-)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• INDICATED
  Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power.
• COMBINATE
  United; joined; betrothed.
• COMBING
  See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• COMBINEDLY
  ; jointly.
• ANATOMY
  1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure
• INDICATE
  To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants. (more info) pref. in- in + dicare to proclaim; akin to dicere to say. See 1. To point out; to discover;
• 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
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• COMBINER
  One who, or that which, combines.
• COMBINABLE
  Capable of combinding; consistent with. M. Arnold. -- Com*bin"a*ble*ness, n.
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• 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.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• INCOMBINE
  To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. Milton.
• CONTRAINDICATE
  To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.
• VINDICATE
  1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• HYOSTERNUM
  See HYOPLASTRON
• CO-RELATION
  Corresponding relation.