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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fore part of the sternum; the part of any sternum which corresponds to the manubrium of the human breast-bone; the part immediately preceding the mesosternum or gladiolus. See cut under
mesosternum . - noun In entomology, same as
prosternum .
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