(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.
Suprasternal
Definition:
(a.) Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with problematic CT findings, particularly children and patients with allergies to contrast media, suprasternal sonography can provide important additional information.
(2) Most were noted in the suprasternal location; all but one were first noted in infancy or childhood.
(3) The highest local blood velocity within the aortic arch can be recorded from a transducer placed in the suprasternal notch.
(4) Aortic blood velocity was recorded from the suprasternal notch by a special continuous-wave Doppler unit.
(5) In each patient, a suprasternal ultrasonic Doppler probe was used to measure cardiac output before induction of anesthesia, during and after operation.
(6) Suprasternal tubercle is considered to be the osseously fused type of suprasternal bone.
(7) The stroke volume index and cardiac index were determined using suprasternal Doppler measurements.
(8) Patients who had free nipple grafts were older and heavier and had larger specimen weights and longer suprasternal notch-to-nipple distances.
(9) A 33 year old woman with Marfan's syndrome and aortic root dissection was studied with precordial and suprasternal echocardiography.
(10) Imaging of the left atrium from the suprasternal notch may help to differentiate between supraventricular and ventricular rhythm disturbances.
(11) Two patients had tracheal stenosis in the region of the suprasternal notch.
(12) A Doppler computer, calibrated for the aortic diameter and the transcutaneously measured cardiac output from the suprasternal notch, computed the Doppler cardiac output from the descending aortic blood flow velocity signal.
(13) The present study was undertaken to measure normal aortic blood velocity profiles by means of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography from apical and suprasternal positions in 40 healthy adults.
(14) This was drained through a suprasternal incision and the mediastinal cavity was intermittently irrigated with povidone iodine solution and packed with gauze.
(15) Acceleration and peak velocity of flow and stroke volume were determined by non-imaging Doppler echocardiography in the suprasternal notch in 38 patients as they underwent simultaneous exercise radionuclide ventriculography.
(16) The accuracy of noninvasive cardiac output (CO) measurement techniques, such as electrical bioimpedance (BIO), suprasternal continuous-wave Doppler (CWD), pulsed-wave Doppler (PWD), and transesophageal continuous-wave Doppler (TED) ultrasound has been variably judged in recent years.
(17) It is widely accepted that most lateral cervical fistulas with an external opening in the suprasternal region orginate from second branchial arch remnants.
(18) Finally, the suprasternal approach is suitable for sonographically guided biopsies of mediastinal tumors.
(19) The peak blood flow velocity across the prosthetic valve was recorded at the left ventricular apex, the suprasternal notch, and the right parasternal border in the second intercostal space.
(20) A midline incision is extended from the suprasternal notch to the pubis, and a catheter is advanced into the aortic root by means of the brachiocephalic artery for monitoring systemic arterial pressure and later for coronary vascular washout with a cold cardioplegic solution.