sternalgia (sternaljia)

[NL., sternalgic (ster-nal'jik), a. [ Meantime Mr. Norton, the mate, having struck the fast whale, he and the second mate sterned off to wait for the sternal is (ster-nā'lis), n.; pl. sterna les (-lēz). whale to get quiet. Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 273. stern3 (stern), n. Same as starn1 . stern (stern), n. [A var. of tern : see tern , and cf. Sterna .] A tern. Sterna (ster'nä), n . [NL. (Linnæus, 1758), appar. based on E. tern .] A Linnean genus of Laridæ , typical of the subfamily Sternice , and contain ing all the terns or sea-swallows, or variously restricted. It is now commonly confined to species of moderate and large size, white with usually a pearly-blue mantle and black cap, and having a long deeply-forked tail, whose outer feathers are more or le narrowly linear for much of over the order of Europe their length. The species numerous, and are found all and America; S. arctic a, the arctic tern of the northern hemisphere; S. paradise a or doug all i, the roseate tern (see cut under roseate ), very widely distributed; and S. for steri and S. trudeaui of America. Among the large species, representing a subgenus Thala eus, are S. tschegrava or caspia, the Caspian tern of Asia, Europe, and America; S. maxima, the royal tern (smaller than the last, in spite of its name) of America; S. elegans, the ducal tern of America. (See cut under Thala eus.) A group of small species, [NL., sc. musculus, muscle: see sternal.] A sternal or pre sternal muscle; specifically, the rectus sternal is of various animals, more expre ly called sternal is brutorum and rectus thoracic us superficial is. It is not infrequently present in man. Sternaspida (ster-nas'pi-da), n. pl. [NL., irreg. cla Gephyrea. Compare Echiuroidea. Stern berg i a (stern-ber'ji-ä), n. [NL. (Waldstein and Kitaibel, 1805), named after Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, 1761-1838, author of various botanical and paleontological works.] A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the order Amaryllid aceæ and tribe Amarylleæ. It is characterized by a commonly solitary funnel-shaped perianth without a corona and with somewhat spreading lobes, and by a fleshy nearly indehiscent fruit with roundish and Stern inæ often strophiolate seeds. About 12 species have been described, now by some reduced to 5, all native of Europe and the Mediterranean region. They produce a short flow er-stalk from a coated bulb, with leaves at the same time or earlier. S. lutea and several other dwarf species with handsome yellow flowers are cultivated under the name of star - flower. S. lutea is also known as winter daffodil, and S. Ætnensis as Mount Etna lily; these are often sold under the name of amaryllis.