Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sterneber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) One of the segments of the sternum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy One of the
segments of thesternum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Occasionally a sternebra ossifies from more than one point of origin.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Ossification begins in the first sternebra during the fifth to sixth fetal month, in the second and third during the seventh to eighth fetal month, and in the fourth during the first year after birth.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Occasionally a sternebra ossifies from more than one point of origin.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Occasionally a sternebra ossifies from more than one point of origin.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Ossification begins in the first sternebra during the fifth to sixth fetal month, in the second and third during the seventh to eighth fetal month, and in the fourth during the first year after birth.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Ossification begins in the first sternebra during the fifth to sixth fetal month, in the second and third during the seventh to eighth fetal month, and in the fourth during the first year after birth.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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