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Word Meanings - STERNOCORACOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

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  • 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
  • CORACOID
    Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals. (more info) 1. Shaped like a crow's beak.
  • 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.
  • EPICORACOID
    A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
  • PROSTERNUM
    The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
  • HYOSTERNUM
    See HYOPLASTRON
  • PRECORACOID
    The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.
  • STERNOCORACOID
    Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
  • 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.
  • PRAECORACOID
    See PRECORACOID
  • 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.
  • SUBCORACOID
    Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.
  • MESOCORACOID
    A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

 

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