(a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8 sternal and 5 asternal ribs were observed in animals of both breeds.
Sternal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
(2) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(3) Times to sternal recumbency and times to standing were not significantly different.
(4) There was an increase in walking (5.3 per cent), lying in sternal recumbency (8 per cent) and lying in lateral recumbency (5.3 per cent) whereas standing (53.3 per cent) was decreased.
(5) Three patients, all in the cefonicid group, required sternal debridement to control postoperative deep wound infections.
(6) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
(7) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
(8) In two cases the author has successfully carried out retro-sternal transposition "of necessity", at 6 months and 4 years after coloesophagoplasty in the pre-thoracic variant.
(9) The present investigation examines metamorphosis in the sternal ribs of American blacks (N = 53 males, N = 20 females), and tests the application of age estimation standards developed by the authors from a white population.
(10) The average hospital stay was 24 days after sternal incision and drainage (range, nine to 85 days).
(11) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(12) The chest X-ray showed widening of the mediastinum without rib or sternal fractures.
(13) In our opinion resection of the sternal end of the clavicle should not be used in old traumatic dislocation.
(14) In 84 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia receiving a cytostatic monotherapy with busulfan, an aplastic syndrome developed which was confirmed by a biopsy of the pelvis crest and examination of the sternal marrow.
(15) Radiographic findings that were tabulated included joint space narrowing, sternal or costal osteophytes, articular calcification, vacuum phenomena, and the degree of ossification of the costal cartilages.
(16) Venous PCO2 was increased by insufflating the gut with high CO2 while recording changes in the amplitude of the sternal movements.
(17) Surgical procedures for the treatment of pectus excavatum--sternocostal elevation and sternal turnover--resulted in an excellent cosmetic result but did not importantly affect respiratory function.
(18) The R wave continued to recover toward the preanesthetic level at sternal closure.
(19) Immediately after the implantation of a temporary transvenous right ventricular pacemaker, a high-pitched systolic musical murmur was heard at the lower left sternal border.
(20) To evaluate the effect of median sternotomy and IMA dissection on sternal vascular supply, sternal bone tomography was performed 7 days and 1 month after cardiac operation in 67 patients.