Definitions for manubrium

manubrium ma·nu·bri·um

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

Manubrium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in manubrium (abimmnruu).

Definitions for manubrium

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 manubrium

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

Examples for manubrium

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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