Word Meanings - STERNOTHYROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
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- CARTILAGE
A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See - THYROIDEAL
Thyroid. - THYROID
Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal. Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx. -- Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland , a glandlike but ductless body, or pair of bodies, of unknown function, in the floor - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - 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. - FIBROCARTILAGE
A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a. - HYPOSTERNUM
See HYPOPLASTRON - PRESTERNUM
The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a. - CRICOTHYROID
Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages. - PROSTERNUM
The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect. - 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. - METASTERNUM
The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum. - 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. - STERNOTHYROID
Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach