xiphisternum

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You're a cryogenic heart attack {encased in flame} and laced with memory's sweetest secret name spoken and winding icily down the same backbone that you freeze with a fireburn hum; to feel you breathe upon my xiphisternum is like a dream from heaven above This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off.

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  1. noun The posterior and smallest of the three divisions of the sternum, below the gladiolus and the manubrium. Also called xiphoid, xiphoid process.

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  • The sternum includes eight elements with a T-shaped manubrium, six sternebrae, and an elongate xiphisternum. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • You're a cryogenic heart attack {encased in flame} and laced with memory's sweetest secret name spoken and winding icily down the same backbone that you freeze with a fireburn hum; to feel you breathe upon my xiphisternum is like a dream from heaven above This regular news article promises to make you giggle, chortle, and laugh your ass off. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • You're a cryogenic heart attack {encased in flame} and laced with memory's sweetest secret name spoken and winding icily down the same backbone that you freeze with a fireburn hum; to feel you breathe upon my xiphisternum is like a dream from heaven above —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Cut away xiphisternum, and then cut through clavicles and coracoids on either side, and remove ventral part of shoulder girdle, to expose the heart. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • There is a pre-omosternum (o. st.) and a post-omosternum, sometimes termed a xiphisternum (x.). —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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  1. Greek xiphos, sword + sternum.

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  1. New Latin, properly xiphosternum, from Greek ξίφος, sword, + στέρνον, breast-bone.
 

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/zɪfɪˈstərnəm/
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