What's the difference between sternum and tergum?

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.

Tergum


Definition:

  • (n.) The back of an animal.
  • (n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.
  • (n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unciform sclerotization of tergum VIII (or the place of connection between tergum VIII and its internal lobe) resembles an arc.
  • (2) Among 6,003 specimens, no individuals had pale-scales continuing from the tergal base to its apex on the third tergum and posteriorly.
  • (3) The flexible and complex skeletal structure of the tergum shows some marked similarities to the structure of lamellar bone.
  • (4) The front margin of the internal lobe of tergum VIII is not sclerotized.
  • (5) A detailed study of the hierarchical organization of one of the two shell plate types, the tergum, reveals a remarkably complex structure.
  • (6) Although this is undoubtably a product of convergent evolution, the iblid tergum provides a unique perspective on bone structure, which was heretofore unavailable.
  • (7) It seemed of interest to introduce an in vivo model in which one animal is punctured at tergum III in order to gain 1 microliter hemolymph using a glass capillary tube .