Word Meanings - INTERCLAVICULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between the clavicles; as, the interclavicular notch of the sternum. Of or pertaining to the interclavicle.

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• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• INTERCLAVICULAR
  Between the clavicles; as, the interclavicular notch of the sternum. Of or pertaining to the interclavicle.
• NOTCHWEED
  A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
• NOTCHING
  A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
• 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
• NOTCHBOARD
  The board which receives the ends of the steps in a staircase.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• INTERCLAVICLE
  See EPISTERNUM
• 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.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• 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.