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Example sentences for "sternal"

Lexicographically close words:
sterilizing; sterlet; sterling; sterlings; stern; sterned; sterner; sternest; sternly; sternmost
  1. Maxillae flat; the outer margins of both together form a card-like figure; their lower extremity is hairy; sternal lip between the maxillae, elongate elliptical.

  2. What distinguishes it in quadrupeds is that there are costal attachments which extend further on the sternal surface of the thorax, and the number of its aponeurotic insertions, which, in general, is more considerable.

  3. It is commonly seen upon the sternal and interscapular regions.

  4. The breast, especially over the sternal region, is a favorite site for its appearance.

  5. The scalp, face, and (less frequently) the sternal and interscapular regions of the trunk.

  6. Side view of three mesosternal segments of a young Anteater (Tamandua), showing the mode of articulation of the sternal rib (sr).

  7. It consists of one piece only, of a roughly-oval form, to which apparently only two pairs of (cartilaginous) sternal ribs are attached.

  8. These and the next have sternal moieties joining the sternum, of which the first three are ossified, the last being apparently merely a ligament.

  9. Four cartilaginous sternal ribs are attached to this bone.

  10. The existence of cartilaginous sternal ribs in Inia and Platanista shows affinity between these two genera and the Physeteridae.

  11. The band is generally in the sternal region.

  12. The clavicle was fractured two inches from the acromial end, and the sternal end was driven high up into the muscles of the neck.

  13. Slocum reports the occurrence of a sternal fissure 3 X 1 1/2 inches in an Irishman of twenty-five.

  14. Pavy has given a most remarkable case of sternal fissure in a young man of twenty-five, a native of Hamburg.

  15. This monster consisted of two females of about the same size, united from the sternal notch to the navel, having one cord and one placenta.

  16. Those who examined him supposed the ball was lodged near the sternal end of the clavicle, four or five inches from where it entered.

  17. An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

  18. The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.

  19. Shell kidney-shaped, one and one-third times as broad as long, six times as broad as the inflated marginal girdle, and half as long as the sternal incision.

  20. Cephalis sexlobate, with two divergent cylindrical tubes, an ascending apical tube in the apex of the helmet-shaped occipital lobe and a descending sternal tube on the base, between the two kidney-shaped frontal lobes.

  21. Shell compressed, nearly square, spiny, with slight sternal incision and two distinct transverse strictures.

  22. Basilar rod with a posterior and an anterior forked rod (commencing caudal and sternal foot).

  23. Two pectoral feet cylindrical curved, twice as long as the shell and as the two sagittal feet; the caudal is much stronger than the sternal foot.

  24. Basal plate with three large collar pores (two paired posterior cardinal, and an odd anterior sternal pore).

  25. Cephalis quinquelobate, with two divergent ascending tubes, a posterior occipital and an anterior sternal or nasal tube.

  26. Basal plate with three large collar pores (two paired posterior cardinal pores and an odd anterior sternal pore).

  27. Sternal incision cordate, deeper than in all other species of the genus, nearly half as long as the shell.

  28. Entry, situated in the third right interspace 3 inches from the sternal margin; exit, in the fourth left space 2-3/4 inches from the sternal margin.

  29. The sterno-mastoid was prominent, also the sternal third of the clavicle.

  30. Entry, 2 inches above the clavicle at the anterior margin of the trapezius; exit, first intercostal space, 1 inch from the sternal margin.

  31. Entothorax: applied to the apodemes or processes extending inwardly from the sternal sclerites: see apophysis.

  32. The usual median eye is present, and there is also found a peculiar sternal papilla, on which opens a spiral canal filled with a glutinous material, which is probably derived from a gland which disappears on the completion of the duct.

  33. The apex of the lung projects into the root of the neck, even to a higher level, Q, Plate 1, than that occupied by the sternal end of the clavicle, K.

  34. The heart in its pericardial envelope sways to either side of the sternal median line according as the body lies on this or that side.

  35. Left sterno-mastoid muscle, cut across, and separated from g g, its sternal and clavicular attachments.

  36. Place indicating the interval between the clavicular and sternal insertions of sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle.

  37. As the sternal ribs degenerate into the "false" asternal or incomplete ribs from before, obliquely backward down to the last dorsal vertebra, so the thoracic space takes form.

  38. The clavicle at its sternal end is round and thick, where it gives attachment to the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle.

  39. Scapular and sternal ends of the clavicle.

  40. Projection of the sternal portion of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle.

  41. It is seldom that the sternal extremity is separated from its connexions.

  42. The fascia and cellular tissue are divided carefully, until the cervical plexus of nerves appears, and then the artery is to be looked for on the same level with the plexus, and towards its sternal margin.

  43. In short, the scapular portion is displaced, the sternal is nearly in situ; though, from the depression of the former, the prominence of the latter appears to arise from displacement.

  44. The wound is generally small, and occasioned by the projection of the sternal portion; or the integument may be divided by the external force.

  45. The sternal attachment of the sterno-mastoid muscle is separated, the cervical fascia divided, the cellular tissue betwixt the sterno-hyoid muscles separated, and the vessel exposed.

  46. The sternal attachment of the sterno-mastoid must then be cautiously divided, as also part or the whole of its clavicular attachment, according as room is required.

  47. He removed it by two incisions, one from the clavicle a little to the sternal side of the coracoid, directed downwards to the lower boundary of the tumour, another transversely from the shoulder to the posterior edge of the scapula.

  48. This being done, the sterno-hyoid and sterno-thyroid muscles require division immediately above their sternal attachments.

  49. The patient lying down with the shoulders raised and head thrown well back, the sternal attachment of the right sterno-mastoid must be very freely exposed.

  50. In the young Cirripede, after the metamorphosis, there is no trace of this medial dorsal suture, or of the wider sternal surface.

  51. Moreover, in all Cirripedes there is another striking peculiarity connected with these parts, namely, the exclusive attachment of the whole thorax or included body to the internal ventral or sternal surface of the carapace and head.

  52. Thus the sternum, or rather the complex of sternal elements, is defined and discovered in particular cases not by its connections only but also by its functions.

  53. If these are sternal ribs, the bones to which they are attached must be the hyo- and hyposternals or "annexes," the bones from which in birds the ribs take their origin.

  54. The unpaired sternal bone (urohyal) cannot be homologous with the entosternal, for it has no connections with the annexes.

  55. So, too, in dealing with the homologies of the sternal elements (supra, p.

  56. Geoffroy's next step is to point out that the only possible homologues of sternal ribs are the branchiostegal rays, which arise from the large bones of the hyoid arch.

  57. In the other air-breathing Vertebrates the nine sternal elements can according to Geoffroy be discovered without great difficulty.

  58. Its tergal plate is usually retained, but its sternal plate is generally suppressed.

  59. In the case of the somites bearing the walking legs the tergal and sternal elements are preserved without fusion with the corresponding plates of the preceding or succeeding somites, so that great flexibility of the body is retained.

  60. The sternal plates of all the jaw-bearing somites have disappeared, except in the case of the somite of the toxicognath, where it may be vestigial.

  61. This is the sternal artery, which arises from the posterior end of the heart and passes ventrally at one side of the alimentary canal and between the nerve-cords.

  62. Here the sternal artery divides into an anterior and a posterior branch, from which lesser branches are given off to each one of the appendages.

  63. The sternal portion of the seventh pair is extremely broad in Cochins, and is completely ossified.

  64. Certain parts of the scapula and the terminal sternal bones have become highly variable in shape.

  65. This reduction of the crest in all the breeds probably accounts for the great variability, before referred to, in the curvature of the furculum, and in the shape of its sternal extremity.

  66. The margin of the sternal bone thickens at these facets, four of which are preserved.

  67. American specimens have not the same notch behind the articulation for the coracoid to separate it from the transverse lateral expansion of the sternal shield.

  68. A more interesting feature in the ribs consists in the presence behind the sternum, which is shorter than the corresponding bone in most birds, of median sternal ribs.

  69. The bones in Iguanodon are placed behind the sternal region without any attachment for sternal ribs, and the expanded processes converge forwards from the stalk and unite exactly like the prepubic bones of Ornithosaurs.

  70. Von Meyer has described the first pair of ribs as frequently larger than the others, and there appear in Rhamphorhynchus to be examples preserved of the sternal ribs, which connect the dorsal ribs with the sternum.

  71. The bone cannot be entirely attributed to the effect of flight, since there is no such expanded sternal shield in Bats.

  72. Crocodiles have the bone more elongated, so that it has somewhat the aspect of a very strong first sternal rib when seen on the ventral face of the animal.

  73. The small number of sternal ribs is even more characteristic of birds than mammals or reptiles.

  74. In Crocodiles it is a cartilage to which the sternal ribs unite; and upon its front portion a flat knife-like bone called the interclavicle is placed.

  75. Von Meyer found in Rhamphorhynchus on each side of the sternum a separate lateral plate with six pairs of sternal ribs, which unite the sternum with the dorsal ribs, as in the young of some birds.

  76. They are slender #V#-shaped bones in the middle line of the abdomen, which overlapped the ends of the dorsal ribs like the similar sternal bones of reptiles.

  77. The sternal costal elements are very broad and flat, and though the lateral ones are less so, they are wide and expanded.

  78. The dorso-cheliceral-sternal muscle (61) is the most anterior of the dorso-ventral muscles.

  79. The apex of the heart is at a point about two inches below the left nipple and one inch to its sternal side.

  80. In Columba livia no vessel corresponding to the sternal artery was seen.

  81. Of the vessels described here, the only one that differed distinctly in one species was the sternal artery.

  82. The origin is from the anterior edge of the sternal portion of the first four thoracic ribs.

  83. The origin is from the anterior edge of the sternal portion of the first three thoracic ribs.

  84. In Zenaidura macroura both right and left sternal arteries were similar to the left vessel described above, no median longitudinal vessel being seen.

  85. Clark examined this above the manubrium of the sternum, the sternal notch.

  86. The wound on the neck was approximately an inch and a half above the manubrium of the sternum, the sternal notch.

  87. The sternum is suspended temporarily by strings attached to the vertebral column, and the single wires that have previously been placed through the end of each rib are now run, one by one, through the end of the sternal rib it is to support.

  88. A hole should be bored through the end of each sternal rib, coming out on the inner surface.


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