Split down the middle of the back, wipe clean with a damp cloth, twist the top of the wings from the second joint; spread out flat, and with a rolling pin break the projecting breastbone so that the bird will lie flat upon the broiler.
Then beginning near the vent, cut the membrane down between the breastbone and tail to the backbone on each side, and separate just below the ribs.
Diagram modified from Quain's "Anatomy" to show the attachment of the diaphragm by fleshy pillars to the spinal column, to the rib cartilages, and lower end of the breastbone and last rib.
The latter may be likened to a cage; it is formed by the spine behind and the ribs, which are attached by cartilages to the breastbone (sternum) in front (vide fig.
But theirbreastbone has no keel such as the breastbone of a bird has for the attachment of muscles strong enough for long-sustained flying.
It is fastened at one end to the breastbone and the first rib, and, at the other, to the shoulder blade.
As they run obliquely downward from the spine, if the sternum or breastbone be lifted in front, the diameter of the chest will be increased.
Sometimes there is swelling about the wrist and forearm, and the breastbone may appear sunken in.
Deformity of the chest is another result of obstruction to nose-breathing, the common form being the "pigeon breast," where the breastbone is unduly prominent.
Then cut through the muscles connecting the front of the breastbone with the neck and its hinder end with the belly, and pull out the entire breastbone.
A row of bony enlargements may be found where the ribs articulate with the cartilages connecting them with the breastbone and is called the "beaded line.
Then with the knife the muscles attaching the elbow and shoulder to the breastbone are cut across, together with those on the inner side of the shoulder joint and in front and behind it as far as these can be reached.
Soon the cow lies down, or falls and is unable to rise, but for one or two days she may rest on the breastbone and hold the head in the flank without showing any disorderly movements.
Pass a knife under the skin of the back, and cut out the backbone without injuring the skin or breaking off the rump, draw out the breastbone and break the merrythought; flatten the fowl and put two skewers through it.
Cut off the feet of a chicken, break the breastbone flat, but be careful not to break the skin.
This is then applied by sticking one end along the back bone and carrying it forward around the injured side of the chest over the breastbone as far as a line below the armpit on the uninjured side of the chest, i.
Patient puts hands on head while attendant puts adhesive-plaster band, one foot wide, around injured side from spine over breastbone to line of armpit of sound side.
The Skipjack said nothing, but it was said of him that he thought all the more; and directly the Yard Dog had smelt at him he was ready to assert that the Skipjack was of good family, and formed from the breastbone of an undoubted goose.
In breathing the breastbone and ribs are moved up and down by muscles attached to them.
The rib cage includes the breastbone and twelve pairs of ribs.
Beat the breastbone flat with a rolling-pin, put a skewer through the under part of each wing, and having drawn up the legs closely, put a skewer into the middle of each, and pass the same quite through the body.
The more usual and summary mode is to carry the knife sharply along the top of the breastbone of the bird, and cut it quite through, thus dividing it into two precisely equal and similar parts, in the same manner as carving a pigeon.
For example: the breastbone of a child is made up of eight pieces; some of these unite as it becomes older, so that when fully grown it has but three pieces in this bone.
It extends almost to the breastbone, and a little more than half of the distance between the breastbone and the backbone.
By applying the ear over the lower part of the windpipe in front of the breastbone a somewhat harsh, blowing sound may be heard.
He rests more on the side of the breastbone and chest, and consequently the leg which is flexed under the body is subject to considerable pressure.
Next dissect the skin from the limb, from the fetlock up to the breastbone on the inner side, and as far up on the shoulder blade as possible on the outer side.
Defn: An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastboneis destitute of a keel.
Defn: The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone.
To test a chicken for broiling and roasting, select one in which the cartilage at the end of the breastbone is soft and pliable; the pinions (lower part of the wings) and the feet should be soft and readily bent.
The breastbone of a fowl is firmer and the wings and feet harder than those of the younger chicken.
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For answer Tom Rochford pressed his hand to his breastboneand hiccupped.
He hugged the chief so tightly that his breastbone cracked, and his arms, pinioned to his side, were numbed to the very finger, so that he let the smoking gun drop.
When you see those fireworks cavorting (curvetting) around that big camp right smart, you sail in down the hill and stick every red nigger till you are right up to the house, if your heart backs your breastbone so far.
An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel.
Using it as a stepping-place, and pulling himself up by his hands, he brought the lower end of his breastbone into contact with the sill.
Also, a sickish, sinking feeling at the lower end of his breastbone made him certain that he was about to break in two; and a sudden wobbling of the knees threatened to bring him down upon them.
It seemed to be something in his forehead; but it was in his throat most of all; though that spot at the end of his breastbone felt none too well.
Behind the breastbone are rodlike bones embedded in the muscles of the belly; they occur again in the ancient fish lizards and modern crocodiles, and probably gave rise to the under shield of the turtles.
The breastbone is generally reduced, as in Whales; and but few ribs are attached thereto.
The breastbone of this Whale is a roughly-triangular bone made up of three pieces.
It has been compared to a completely shut, conical box, the small end of which Is turned upward, the back of the box being formed by the spinal column, the front by the breastbone and the sides by the ribs.
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