Sternum
Sternum[1] (a Graece στέρνον 'pectus; sternum') sive sternon[2] sive os pectoris[3] sive os pectorale[4] est os thoracis hominis et plurimorum vertebratorum, a quo costae avertuntur. Sternum mammalium in tres partes divisum est:
- manubrium
- corpus
- processum xiphoiden
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Sternum cum costis cor, pulmones, aliaque membra vitalia protegit.
Notae
recensere- ↑ Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (1998). Terminologia Anatomica. Stuttgart: Thieme
- ↑ Castelli, B. & Ravenstein, A. (1665). Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum. Rotterdam: Arnold Leers.
- ↑ Celsus, De medicina 1.
- ↑ Oribasius (versio Rasarii), ed.Dunlass p.203 ad os pectorale; p. 209 ad pectorale os; p. 231 ad os pectorale.