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Definition of Asternal
1. Adjective. Not connected to the sternum or breastbone. "Asternal ribs"
Definition of Asternal
1. a. Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.
Definition of Asternal
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Not sternal; said of ribs that do not join the sternum. ¹
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Definition of Asternal
1. not connected to the sternum [adj]
Medical Definition of Asternal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asternal
Literary usage of Asternal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... he The ultimate sanctity and asternal joy Foreknew that they led up to ; and,
perchance, By his own consciousness of final bliss, He might the hearts of ..."
2. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"But tho asternal cartilages are bound together by a small yellow clastic ligament,
which is carried from the free extremity of each to the posterior border ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1844)
"... the mode of articulation is an obstacle to the correctness of the comparison.
And, moreover, these asternal ribs in the ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"Of these asternal ribs each of the upper three lias its cartilage attached along
its superior border to the cartilage of the rib above it, while the two ..."
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