sternaladj.n.
/ˈstəːnəl/ Anatomy and Zoology.
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the sternum or breast-bone. sternal rib n. a rib attached to the breast-bone or sternum.
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sternothyroeidal1681
sternomastic1745
sternal1756
sternocostal1785
sternomastoid1835
sternothyroid1840
asternal1849
sterno-vertebral1861
hyosternal1870
sternopericardiac1877
sternopericardial1901
1756 G. Douglas tr. J. B. Winslow Anat. Expos. Struct. Human Body (ed. 4) I. 234 The Sternal Portion passes foremost and covers the Clavicular.
1833 G. A. Mantell Geol. S.E. Eng. 307 A small sternal bone has been discovered.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 201/2 This sternal plastron is distinctly shewn.
1890 E. Coues Handbk. Field & Gen. Ornithol. 212 Birds offer two leading types of sternal structure, the ratite and the carinate.
2. Situated on the same side as the sternum; anterior (in man) or inferior (in other animals); ventral; hæmal. (Opposed to dorsal, tergal, or neural.)
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the world > life > the body > positions or directions in body > [adjective] > specific
rightOE
lefta1200
lowera1400
furtherc1400
lateral?a1425
sinistera1500
upper1528
anterior?1541
inferior1563
superior1566
oblique1578
high1588
ascendant1611
prone1646
peripherial1653
internal1657
supine1661
peripherical1690
gawk1703
ascending1713
adducent1722
submental1722
adductory1752
subdorsal1783
syntropic18..
atlantal1803
mesiad1803
mesial1803
proximal1803
sternal1803
distal1808
peripheral1808
peripheric1818
ventripetal1819
submedial1825
anteriormostc1826
subvertebral1827
afferent1828
sinistral1828
rostral1834
interganglionic1835
submedian1836
mesian1837
haemal1839
supravaginal1844
neural1846
symmetrical1851
suprameatal1853
paraxial1861
posterial1866
hypaxial1873
postaxial1873
preaxial1873
transmedial1876
transmedian1876
mediad1878
horizontal1881
mesal1881
prosomatic1882
dextrad1883
paramedian1890
prorsal1890
ventro-dorsal1895
midsagittal1898
ventro-axial1902
ventro-posterior1903
ipsilateral1907
parasagittal1907
ventromedial1908
homolateral1910
suprasellar1912
supratemporal1975
1803 J. Barclay New Anat. Nomencl. 120 Instead of Anterior and Posterior, we might adopt Sternal and Dorsal.
1814 J. H. Wishart tr. Scarpa Hernia Mem. i. 34 The anterior surface [note, Sternal Aspect] of the abdomen.
3. Of or pertaining to a sternum or sternite in Arthropoda; sternitic. (Often coinciding with 2.)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [adjective] > of parts of > of or relating to sternum
sternal1835
sternitic1916
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 89 A bilobed organ which Savigny calls a sternal tongue.
1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 20 Each of these rings consists normally of eight parts or segments,—two below, called sternal, two above, called dorsal, [etc.].
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 20 Its under, or what is better called its sternal surface.
B. n.
A sternal bone.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > breastbone > [noun]
breastboneeOE
sternon1598
sternum1667
sternal1901
1901 Hatcher in Mem. Carnegie Mus. I. i. 40 Taken together the sternals of Diplodocus would thus form a shallow raft-like sternum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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