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• n  the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs

• Its large sternum was flat without a keel.
• Heart operations, in which they sawed your sternum in half and stopped your heart with ice-water, are now done with a neat little 3-in.
• To keep him from slipping into a coma, Barbe was grabbing handfuls of the patient's eyebrow hair ripping it out, and rubbing his knuckles into his sternum.

• breastbone

News & Articles

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• Austin storm chaser returns home from hospital
  AUSTIN -- An Austinite badly hurt in an tornado in Oklahoma is finally home. It was a long trip from the Oklahoma hospital to his house, but Austin Anderson was happy to be back. He'll be wearing the neck brace for at least three months to protect the crushed vertebrae, broken ribs, and cracked sternum. Anderson was driving a tornado-chasing truck for the Weather Channel when the tornado hit El ...
  June 9, 2013 - KVUE-TV Austin
• Miss Unsafe Brakes 1939 Looks A Little Anorexic There
  Come on, Miss Unsafe Brakes , have a sandwich or something! You're in 1939 Chicago, for weeping audibly, have a nice big deep-dish hot dog cheesesteak hoagie or whatever it is they eat there. I swear I can see your sternum behind that sash. And, in case you're wondering, this picture was taken at the 1939 Chicago Auto Show, where, if I'm understanding everything, unsafe brakes were being touted ...
  June 7, 2013 - Jalopnik
• Annett returns to hometown track for NASCAR race
  DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) - Michael Annett has always cherished racing at his home-state track. This time, Annett's latest trip to Iowa Speedway will mark a major milestone in his comeback from a gruesome injury. Annett will race for the third time since fracturing and dislocating his sternum in February when ...
  June 6, 2013 - The Washington Times

Quotes

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• Etan Thomas in USA Today
  Everything is fine with my heart. My body has reacted great to the surgery,Thomas said. "Now they're just waiting to do a few more tests just to make sure I can take contact to the sternum. But I feel fine. I feel great."
• Todd Blackadder in Sydney Morning Herald
  Brad Thorn has a sore sternum and we will probably look to give him a breather for the next match and Chris Jack is fit and available and is likely to be on the bench,Blackadder said.
• Steve McNair in USA Today
  I am excited about coming back to play this season. I feel good physically. My sternum is healing,McNair said Friday in a statement. "I am in good shape, haven't had any problems throwing and expect to participate in some of the minicamps....