Definitions for manubria

manubria ma·nu·bri·um

Spelling: [muh-noo-bree-uh m, -nyoo-]
IPA: /məˈnu bri əm, -ˈnyu-/

Manubria is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in manubria (aabimnru).

Definitions for manubria

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
  2. Also called presternum. Anatomy. the uppermost of the three portions of the sternum. Compare gladiolus (def 2), xiphisternum. the long process of the malleus.

Origin of manubria

1650-60; New Latin, Latin: a handle, akin to manus hand

Examples for manubria

The Mammalian presternum (manubrium sterni) and xiphosternum have the same origin as the main body of the sternum (Ruge, No. 438).

The manubrium is thickened and drawn inward, the ensiform process protuberant, the sternum often swelled and painful to the touch.

The manubrium, or handle, is also the centre of a nerve-system.

It is called the manubrium and is the mouth and stomach of the animal.

I was thus led to think it probable that the reflex centres of which I was in search might be seated in the manubrium.

Its umbrella is nearly hemispherical, and from the center hangs a manubrium.

The manubrium and lithocysts were now removed, and also a segment of the umbrella.

Accordingly, I cut off the manubrium, and tried stimulating its own substance directly.

The loss of time, however, appears to take place in the manubrium itself, where the rate of response is astonishingly slow.

In no case does the excision of the margin of a swimming organ produce any effect upon the movements of the manubrium.

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