manubrium
Americannoun
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Anatomy, Zoology. a segment, bone, cell, etc., resembling a handle.
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Also called presternum. Anatomy.
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the uppermost of the three portions of the sternum.
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the long process of the malleus.
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noun
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anatomy any handle-shaped part, esp the upper part of the sternum
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zoology the tubular mouth that hangs down from the centre of a coelenterate medusa such as a jellyfish
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Origin of manubrium
1650–60; < New Latin, Latin: a handle, akin to manus hand
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The manubrium is joined to the body of the sternum at the sternal angle, which is also the site for attachment of the second rib costal cartilages.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Similarly, at the manubriosternal joint, fibrocartilage unites the manubrium and body portions of the sternum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The clavicular notch is the shallow depression located on either side at the superior-lateral margins of the manubrium.
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The manubrium and body join together at the sternal angle, so called because the junction between these two components is not flat, but forms a slight bend.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The origin is also from the manubrium and the anterolateral portion of the proximal half of the coracoid and to a slight extent from the sterno-coraco-clavicular membrane adjacent to the manubrium.
From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Jenkinson, Marion Anne
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