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Definitions of breastbone
  1. noun
    the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs

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  • keel the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly
  • carina any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom
  • gladiolus the large central part of the breastbone
  • manubrium the upper part of the breastbone
  • poitrine d'agneau a cut of lamb including the breastbone and attached muscles dressed as meat
  • asternal not connected to the sternum or breastbone
  • xiphoid process smallest of the three parts of the breastbone; articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib
  • corpus sternum the large central part of the breastbone
  • mononychus olecranus a turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's; short forelimbs end in a single claw instead of wings; classification as bird or dinosaur is in dispute
  • chicken-breasted having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets
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