breastbone
See also: breast bone
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Etymology
From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.
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Noun
breastbone (plural breastbones)
- (anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
- 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:
- He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
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the central narrow bone in the front of the chest
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