AVANT-STERNUM

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 2

(Fr.), n. ®n?-ste?rn-om. Latreille’s term for the lower middle portion of the first segment of the thorax fn insects. [L, 180.] The fore- 0, no; 02, not; 08, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like 00 in too; U?, blue; US, lull; U4, full; U®, urn; US, like à (German).