What's the difference between sternum and suprasternal?

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.

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.

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