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Some animals are born with kinked tails and deformed sternums.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 13, 2022

Dr. Prieto called in a colleague, Katya Valladares, who investigated the skeletons and identified cut marks on many of the children’s sternums.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2019

A line of pale models, their sternums outlined under parchment skin, wound its way around the bare concrete benches, while overhead hung rows of curved and flat translucent panels made from fiberglass and corrugated polycarbonate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2015

They'd gone from cruising to crisis in a heartbeat – and their hearts were beating harder than ever, smashing through their sternums.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2010

Birds' sternums are a great deal more than surfaces of origin for the pectoral muscles—e.g. movable lid of respiratory bellows.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard