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Breastbone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.

    "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."

  2. 2
    the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.

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