(adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
(adv.) Behind a ship; in the rear.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8 sternal and 5 asternal ribs were observed in animals of both breeds.
Eastern
Definition:
(a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
(a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(2) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(3) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
(4) In a third, central eastern focus infections with Mansonella pertans were found.
(5) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(7) Nucleotide substitutions in the viral-encoded proteinase 3C (3Cpro) region (549 nucleotides) of the RNA genome of a coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v), one of the agents causing acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), were studied using 32 isolates collected from the Eastern hemisphere in 1970-1989.
(8) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(9) Between October 1981 and June 1983, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) conducted a prospectively randomized trial (EST 1581) of the four most active chemotherapy regimens for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
(10) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(11) One hundred ninety-seven cases occurred in the city of Zanesville, with 34.7% of cases concentrated in two neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(14) It was concluded that transmission in eastern Mali has now been reduced to the levels required to control onchocerciasis.
(15) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(16) Asked what would happen if Russia entered eastern Ukraine, the spokesman said: "What we are saying very clearly is that they should not escalate."
(17) Its nonstructural and capsid proteins are most closely related to those of eastern equine encephalitis virus while its glycoproteins are most closely related to those of Sindbis virus.
(18) Significant differences (p less than 0.05-p less than 0.01) were found, suggesting that the Eastern mothers strongly expressed their shame, whereas the Western mothers 'felt ashamed' to express it at all.
(19) The anti-Banzi viral factor inhibited the in vitro Banzi viral RNA synthesis but not that of Eastern equine encephalitis virus or of Japanese encephalitis virus.
(20) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.