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Breastbone   Listen
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Breastbone  n.  The bone of the breast; the sternum.






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"Breastbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... one, wholly unprepared, could more than gasp, the humidor caught him a blow like a kick just below the breastbone. He reeled, the breath left him in one great gust, he sat down abruptly—blue eyes wide with a look of aggrieved surprise—clapped both hands to his middle, blinked, turned pale, and ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... Aid Rule.—Patient puts hands on head while attendant puts adhesive-plaster band, one foot wide, around injured side from spine over breastbone to line of armpit of sound side. Then ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various

... big fat fellow (he had an obtrusive, hairy double chin) in a blue woollen shirt and roomy breeches pulled up very high, even to the level of his breastbone, by a pair of braces quite exposed to public view. As where he stood there was no bulwark, but only a rail and stanchions, I was able to take in at a glance the whole of his voluminous person from his feet to the high crown of his soft black ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad

... as well try to rescue a young lamb, that had been carried off by an eagle," he said bitterly. "Even could an archer send a shaft through the bird's breastbone, the lamb would be bleeding and injured, beyond all hope, ere it touched the ground. We may revenge, Oswald, but I have ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty



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



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