| stern | Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree. "The sterne wind so loud gan to rout." (Chaucer) "I would outstare the sternest eyes that look." (Shak) "When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff." (Shak) "Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard." (Dryden) "These barren rocks, your stern inheritance." (Wordsworth) Synonym: Gloomy, sullen, forbidding, strict, unkind, hard-hearted, unfeeling, cruel, pitiless. Origin: OE. Sterne, sturne, AS. Styrne; cf. D. Stuurish stern, Sw. Stursk refractory. 166. Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits. Stern board, that part of an open boat which is between the stern and the aftmost seat of the rowers, usually furnished with seats for passengers. Stern wheel, a paddle wheel attached to the stern of the steamboat which it propels. <ornithology> The black tern. Origin: AS. Stearn a kind of bird. See Starling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Stern, Heinrich | <person> U.S. Physician, 1868-1918. See: Stern's posture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sterna | Plural of sternum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternad | In a direction toward the sternum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sternal angle | The angle between the manubrium and the body of the sternum at the manubriosternal junction. Marks the level of the second costal cartilage (rib) for counting ribs or intercostal spaces. Denotes level of aortic arch, bifurcation of trachea, and T4/T5 intervertebral disc. Synonym: angulus sterni, Louis' angle, Ludwig's angle, manubriosternal junction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal arteries | <anatomy, artery> Branches of internal thoracic artery which pass medially to supply the transversus thoracis muscle and posterior sternum. Synonym: rami sternales arteriae thoracicae internae, sternal arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal articular surface of clavicle | The oval surface on the sternal end of the clavicle that articulates with the fibrocartilaginous disk of the sternoclavicular joint. Synonym: facies articularis sternalis claviculae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal bar | One of the transverse units of the developing sternum formed by the union of paired primordia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal branches of internal thoracic artery | <anatomy, artery> Branches of internal thoracic artery which pass medially to supply the transversus thoracis muscle and posterior sternum. Synonym: rami sternales arteriae thoracicae internae, sternal arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal cartilage | A costal cartilage of one of the true ribs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal end of clavicle | The enlarged medial end of the clavicle that articulates with the manubrium sterni. Synonym: extremitas sternalis claviculae, sternal end of clavicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal extremity of clavicle | The enlarged medial end of the clavicle that articulates with the manubrium sterni. Synonym: extremitas sternalis claviculae, sternal end of clavicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal joints | The cartilaginous junctions between the body of the sternum and the manubrium, and the xiphoid process; in domestic animals, there may be several, e.g., synchondrosis manubriosternalis, synchondrosis intersternebralis, and synchondrosis xiphosternalis. Synonym: synchondroses sternales, sternal joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sternal line | A vertical line corresponding to the lateral margin of the sternum. Synonym: linea sternalis. (05 Mar 2000) |