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Definition of Sterna

Sterna
Sternum Ster"num, n.; pl. L. Sterna, E. Sternums. [NL., from Gr. ?, the breast, chest.] 1. (Anat.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or with both. In man it is a flat bone, broad anteriorly, narrowed behind, and connected with the clavicles and the cartilages of the seven anterior pairs of ribs. In most birds it has a high median keel for the attachment of the muscles of the wings. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

Meaning of Sterna from wikipedia

- Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae. The genus used to encomp**** most "white" terns indiscriminately, but mtDNA sequence comparisons...
- The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a cir****polar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic...
- Šterna is a village in the muni****lity of Grožnjan in Istria, Croatia. According to the 2021 census, its po****tion was 70. Until the territorial reorganization...
- Look up Sterna or sterna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sterna is a genus of seabirds. Sterna may also refer to: Sterna, the plural of sternum, the...
- described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766 as Sterna fuscata, bearing this name for many years until the genus Sterna was split up. It is now known as Onychoprion...
- Pteria sterna, or commonly known as the rainbow-lipped pearl oyster or the Pacific wing-oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae...
- The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a cir****polar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate...
- Naturae, placing the gulls in the genus Larus and the terns in Sterna. He gave Sterna the description rostrum subulatum, "awl-shaped bill", referring...
- white in the winter. The greater crested tern was originally described as Sterna bergii by German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1823, but was moved to...
- but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Sterna maxima in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The royal tern is now...