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Breastbone

noun
1.
The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs.  Synonym: sternum.






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"Breastbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... that "fracas," Schomberg groaned with the pain as of a hot coal under his breastbone, and gave himself up to desolation. Ah, if he only had that girl with him he would have been masterful and resolute and fearless—fight twenty desperadoes—care for nobody on earth! Whereas the possession of ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad

... like a torrent, their resistless valour bore all before them, and for a few brief moments they got within hitting distance of the foe. Well did they avenge the slaughter of the Scots; the bayonets, like tongues of flame, passed above or below the rifles' guard, and swept through brisket and breastbone. Out of their trenches the Guardsmen tossed the Boers, as men in English harvest fields toss the hay when the reapers' scythes have whitened the cornfields; and the human sheaves were plentiful where the British Guardsmen stood. Then they fell back, for the fire from the heights above ...
— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales



Words linked to "Breastbone" :   bone, xiphoid process, chest, thorax, corpus sternum, os, pectus, manubrium, gladiolus, axial skeleton



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