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| carina |
in biology, a thin ridgelike structure, such as the projecting part of a bird's breastbone. |
| clavicle |
either of two bones joining the breastbone and the shoulder blades; collarbone. |
| collarbone |
either of two bones joining the breastbone and the shoulder blades; clavicle. |
| coracoid |
a bone that extends from shoulder blade to breastbone in reptiles and birds, but that is only a rudimentary bony process in mammals. [1/2 definitions] |
| false rib |
any of the lower five pairs of ribs that are not attached to the breastbone. (Cf. true rib.) |
| floating rib |
any rib, such as the two lower pairs in humans, that is not attached to other ribs or the breastbone. |
| pigeon breast |
a deformity of the human chest occurring as a result of certain diseases, such as rickets, that is characterized by a sharply protruding breastbone. |
| ratite |
of birds, having a flat, ridgeless breastbone. [2 definitions] |
| sternum |
the flat bone to which most of the ribs are attached in the front of the chest in most vertebrates; breastbone. |
| wishbone |
a forked bone found in front of the breastbone of most birds, formed by the fusion of the clavicles, and sometimes used, when taken from a cooked fowl, to make wishes over. |
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