Crossword-Solution: ASTERNAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asternal | a. | Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “ASTERNAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lacking a breastbone | 1 answer |
| Unattached to the breastbone, as the floating ribs. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ASTERNAL (5)
For when an emphysematous lung shall fully occupy the right thoracic side from B to L, then G, the liver, will protrude considerably into the abdomen beneath the right asternal ribs, and yet will not be therefore proof positive that the liver is diseased and abnormally enlarged.
These latter organs, although occupying abdominal space, rise to a considerable height behind K L, the asternal ribs, a fact which should be borne in mind when percussing the walls of the thorax and abdomen at this region.
The liver, in its healthy state and normal proportions, protrudes for an inch (more or less) below the margins of the right asternal ribs.
The remaining five pairs are called asternal, or false, ribs, and of these each of the three upper pairs is attached to the cartilage of the rib above, while the two lower pairs are free at the ventral ends, and are called floating ribs.
The cartilages, which are continued from the asternal ribs, unite and form the borders, directed obliquely downwards and forwards, of the fossa which is found at the inferior and posterior part of the thorax, and which forms the lateral limits of the epigastric region.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1949–1990).