sternum
In 16 atlases
- Adult male (BodyParts3D)
- Real CT case s0462: female, 77
- Real CT case s0616: male, 58
- Real CT case s0751: male, 62
- Real CT case s0923: female, 41
- Real CT case s0963: female, 58
and 10 more
- Real CT case s1249: female, 93
- Real CT case s1397: male, 73
- Real CT case s1580: male, 9
- Real CT case s1784: male, 33
- Real CT case s1789: female, 21
- Real CT case s2043: male, 15
- Real CT case s2075: female, 5
- Adult female organs (HuBMAP HRA)
- Head and neck (SPL atlas)
- Male torso and inner organs (Voxel-Man, Visible Human)
Key points
- The sternum is a flat bone in the midline of the anterior chest wall.
- Its three parts are the manubrium, body of sternum and xiphoid process.
- It joins the clavicles and the costal cartilages of the first seven pairs of ribs.
- The sternum supports the chest wall, provides muscle attachments and helps protect structures behind it.
Definition
A midventral endochondral skeletal element which represents the origin site of the pectoral muscles[PHENOSCAPE:ad].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Sub-structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 1129
- TA98
- A02.3.03.001
- FMA
- 7485
- UBERON
- 0000975
- Wikidata
- Q8481