Eksempler på breastbone

• Asphondylia websteri is distinguished from the others by the reduced number of lateral papillae on each side of the larval spatula (breastbone).

• The breastbone and ribs healed rapidly and the tuberculosis of the lungs vanished all within a week or two.

• Powerful muscles would have developed to anchor these limbs, which would have reacted upon the breastbone.

• It is inserted into the chest through a cut above the breastbone.

• The procedure begins when the surgeon makes an incision in the skin over the breastbone and divides it to expose the pericardium.

• The minimally invasive approach does not involve cutting the breastbone, but instead uses multiple incisions in the side of the chest and the leg.

• The skeleton's breastbone has also adapted into a large keel, suitable for the attachment of large, powerful flight muscles.

• One of the most abnormal findings was the sternum (breastbone) and most parts of the frontal ribs were missing.