A long, narrow, and flat bone commonly known as BREASTBONE occurring in the midsection of the anterior thoracic segment or chest region, which stabilizes the rib cage and serves as the point of origin for several muscles that move the arms, head, and neck.
    

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The scapula (figures 1-2) and the clavicle (figures 3-4) and the sternum seen from the front (figure 5). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Sternum and right side of rib cage, seen from behind. Watercolour by G.E. Blenkins after a design engraved by A. Bell, 1831.

Sternum and right side of rib cage seen from behind. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.J. Sue, 1798.

Die Resectio sterni mit Bericht über ein Sarcoma retrosternale ... / von Edmund Jaenel.

A clinical atlas of sternal bone marrow / by Carl Reich.

Metastatic tumour of sternum in a 69-year old man with primary lung cancer: sketch of upper chest and neck showing large swelling overlying the manubrium. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1951.

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Die Resectio sterni mit Bericht über ein Sarcoma retrosternale ... / von Edmund Jaenel.

A clinical atlas of sternal bone marrow / by Carl Reich.

Metastatic tumour of sternum in a 69-year old man with primary lung cancer: sketch of upper chest and neck showing large swelling overlying the manubrium. Watercolour by Barbara E. Nicholson, 1951.

A monograph on the structure and development of the shoulder-girdle and sternum on the Vertebrata / by W. Kitchen Parker.

Beitrag zur Kasuistik der Sternal-Sarcome ... / vorgelegt von Wilhelm Christ.