Definitions for sternums

sternums ster·num

Spelling: [stur-nuh m]
IPA: /ˈstɜr nəm/

Sternums is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in sternums (emnrsstu).

Definitions for sternums

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
  2. the ventral surface of a body segment of an arthropod.

Origin of sternums

1660-70; New Latin Greek stérnon chest, breastbone

Examples for sternums

The sternum is widest at the second legs and narrows to a point behind.

He lifted his t-shirt and showed us a long scar, running from sternum to waistband.

Then you get a gander at the full monty, as it were, and he looks like someone inflated him from the sternum down.

The sternum is as wide as long, widest opposite the second legs.

The sternum is pale, with a black edge and black stripe in the middle.

Lateroventral: the point of junction of sternum and pleurum.

The sternum is puny and small as compared with the creature's size.

A red dab over the sternum, and on each arm in front of the deltoid.

He considers it the usual crazy talk until one night when his sternum is nearly crushed by a snarling, otherworldly apparition.

The point of the weapon was concealed by the sternum that it had penetrated with such surprising force.

Word Value for sternums
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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