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manubrium of sternum
medical dictionary

The upper segment of the sternum, a flattened, roughly triangular bone, occasionally fused with the body of the sternum, forming with it a slight angle, the sternal angle.

Synonyms: manubrium sterni, episternum, presternum.

(05 Mar 2000)

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