What's the difference between collarbone and sternum?

Collarbone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's miraculous we survived," said passenger Vedpal Singh, who had a fractured collarbone and whose arm was in a sling.
  • (2) Although Ryan Mathews broke two collarbones this season, some still felt that he was mismanaged when healthy and Turner also made a comment about his vision which was unflattering in the way most coaches don't.
  • (3) And he won't be taking to the slopes this week, as he's got a broken collarbone.
  • (4) We measured the arterial pulse wave velocity at the arm, between sub-collarbone artery and radial artery.
  • (5) Yet when I look in the mirror at my towpath-pounding legs, my prominent collarbones, swelling biceps and flat, gravel-hardened feet, I am looking at my father's body.
  • (6) The story that united these sisters begins one day in spring 2009, when Tamsin, then 40, noticed a strange thickening under the skin of her chest, just below her collarbone.
  • (7) Rodgers was playing in his first game after missing seven games with a broken collarbone (sustained against the Bears) and Cobb was returning after being out 10 games with a broken leg, but the pair connected on a fourth-and-eight from the 48-yard line in the showdown game.
  • (8) When the Packers’ starting quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, went down with a fractured collarbone, the balance of power in the NFC North was immediately transformed.
  • (9) One Ukrainian serviceman has been wounded in the neck and collarbone.
  • (10) The fracture of the right collarbone has been confirmed clinically,” Gerardo Aguilar said .
  • (11) The calamitous clash of bikes involving Mark Cavendish , during the first stage's final sprint through Harrogate, stunned the sun-bathed crowd and left the rider clutching his collarbone.
  • (12) Aaron Rodgers will start at quarterback for Green Bay for the first time since fracturing his collarbone against Chicago in week nine.
  • (13) Javier Hernández underwent a successful operation this morning … he had two plates inserted in his right collarbone fixed with six screws,” the Mexico team doctor Gerardo Aguiar said.
  • (14) Despite her jacket’s bright hues, the outfit was respectful and modest, with nary a collarbone in sight – seemingly appropriate attire in which to pay respects to the deceased monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah.
  • (15) The Mexico striker Javier Hernández had surgery on a fractured collarbone on Thursday and will be out for four weeks missing the Gold Cup, the Mexican Football Federation has said.
  • (16) Her older brother had jumped on her as a child, broken her ribcage and her collarbone, and her mother hadn’t even taken her to hospital, so it had healed like that.” He met another person, a former healthcare worker who uses a wheelchair, “now in very poor health and clearly incapable of work; the welfare reforms had clearly been affecting her”.
  • (17) Eight weeks after going down with a fractured collarbone, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was back to wreak vengeance on Chicago, the team who had caused his injury in the first place.
  • (18) The Manchester United striker Javier Hernández has suffered a broken collarbone while on international duty with Mexico.
  • (19) We call that the thumper,” Martin winks before guiding a resident who is threading a needle into the flesh near the patient’s collarbone.

Sternum


Definition:

  • (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
  • (n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (2) Specimens from the bone marrow taken were by trephine biopsy from the sternum, ala ossis ilii and spine.
  • (3) The resections included an average of three ribs (range, two to five) and, in seven cases, part or all of the sternum.
  • (4) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
  • (5) Upper thoracic fractures that involved the clavicles, scapula, sternum, and ribs were present in four patients.
  • (6) Abnormal radionuclide concentrations were observed in the sternoclavicular, sternocostal, and manubriosternal joints, in the ribs, and in the sternum.
  • (7) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
  • (8) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
  • (9) In the remaining seven patients, sternal and mediastinal debridement with rewiring of the sternum was successfully applied.
  • (10) Three patients had anatomical variants of the sternum.
  • (11) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
  • (12) In affected lambs, lesions were seen consistently in the elbows, shoulders, sternum, and spine.
  • (13) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
  • (14) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
  • (15) The indications for keeping sternum open were enlarged heart, myocardial edema, severe depression of myocardial contractility and reduced lung compliance due to pulmonary edema.
  • (16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
  • (17) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
  • (18) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
  • (19) In five anesthetized and vagotomized dogs the sternum was split and the anterior right lung field exposed.
  • (20) The healing process in the longitudinally divided sternum was evaluated from the SPECT study.

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