stern other us, sternothærus (ær as er), sternotheres

[Pref. sterno-, and Gr. thairos =a hinge.] Zool.: A genus of Chelydide, with six species, from tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar. Head depre ed, with great plates, jaws without dentil a tions, no nuchal plate; sternum wide, with narrow lateral prolongations; free anterior portion of plastron rounded and movable. †stern-ox-1, †stern-ox-I-a, s. pl. [Pref.stern, and Gr. oxys sharp.] Entomol.: A sub-tribe of Pentamerous Beetles. Presternum produced in front into a lobe, and behind into a spine received into a small cavity of the me so sternum. Families, Elate ride and Bupres tide. stern'-son, s . [STERN, 8.] Ship build .: A binding-piece above the deadwood in the stern, and practically forming an extension of the keelson, on which the sternpost is stepped. †stern-u-la, s. [Mod. Lat., dim in. from sterna (q. v.).] Ornith.: A genus of Laride, founded by Boie for Sternula minuta (= Sterna minuta ), the Little or Le er Tern. [STERNA.] ster'-năm, s . [ Gr.stern on =the breast, the chest.] Compar. Anat .: The breast bone. In man, the flat bone, occupying the front of the chest, and formed by the meeting of the visceral arches. It is flattened from before backward, and presents a slight vertical curve with the convexity in front. It divided into the manubrium or presternum, the me so sternum, and the ensiform or xiphioid proce or meta sternum. All mammals and birds po e a sternum, and the presence or absence of a keel on that bone in birds is used as a means of cla ification. Fishes, Amphibians, and Ophidians have no sternum, and in Saurians the broad portion is generally expanded. Some suppose that the plastron of the Chelonia is a highly-developed sternum; others hold that it is a mere integumentary o ification. The name sternum is also given to the plate on each segment of the breast of a crustacean and an arachnidan, but these are integumentary, and have no relation to a true sternum. ster-nu-tā'-tion, subst. [Lat. sternutatio, from sternuto, frequent. of sternuo =to sneeze.] The act of sneezing. "A disease wherein sternutation proved mortal, and such as sneezed died."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iv., ch. ix. Anat.: Of or belonging to the sternum and the the quality of provoking to sneeze. clavicle.