breastbone

See also: breast bone

English

Alternative forms

• breast bone

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

breastbone (plural breastbones)

1. (anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
   • 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:

     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.

Synonyms

• sternum

Translations

the central narrow bone in the front of the chest

• Afrikaans: borsbeen
• Arabic: قَصّ m (qaṣṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قص m (qaṣṣ)

• Armenian: կրծոսկր (hy) (krcoskr)
• Asturian: esternón (ast) m
• Bengali: বক্ষাস্থি (bokkhasthi)
• Bulgarian: гръдна кост f (grǎdna kost)
• Catalan: estern m, estèrnum m
• Cebuano: pitso
• Central Melanau: tujou
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 胸骨 (hung¹ gwat¹)

  Mandarin: 胸骨 (zh) (xiōnggǔ)

• Czech: hrudní kost (cs) f
• Dhivehi: އުރަމަތީ ކަށިގަނޑު (uramatī kaṣigaⁿḍu)
• Dutch: borstbeen (nl) n
• Esperanto: sternumo
• Estonian: rinnak
• Finnish: rintalasta (fi)
• French: sternum (fr) m
• Galician: esterno (gl) m
• German: Brustbein (de) n, Sternum (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: στέρνον n (stérnon)

• Gujarati: ઉરોસ્થિ (gu) (urosthi), છાતીનું હાડકું (chātīnũ hāḍkũ)
• Hebrew: עצם החזה (he) m (etzem ha'khaze), מַפְתֵּחַ הַלֵּב (he) m (mafteáẖ hallév)
• Hindi: उरोस्थि (urosthi)
• Hungarian: szegycsont (hu), mellcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: bringubein (is) n, brjóstbein n
• Indonesian: tulang dada, sternum, tulang rawan (id)
• Ingrian: rintaluu
• Irish: cnámh uchta f, steirneam m
• Italian: sterno (it) m
• Japanese: 胸骨 (ja) (きょうこつ, kyōkotsu)
• Kaurna: kuntuwarpu
• Khiamniungan Naga: sākìk
• Korean: 가슴뼈 (ko) (gaseumppyeo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hestiyê sîngê

• Latin: sternum n
• Lithuanian: krūtinkaulis m
• Malay: tulang dada, sternum, tulang papan, tulang rimau menangis, tulang rawan
• Maori: whaturei
• Marathi: छातीचे हाड (chātīce hāḍ), उरोस्थी (urosthī)
• Motu: abagoro
• Persian: جناغ (fa) (jenâğ)
• Plautdietsch: Brostknoaken m
• Polish: mostek (pl) m
• Portuguese: esterno (pt) m
• Russian: груди́на (ru) f (grudína), грудна́я кость f (grudnája kostʹ)
• Scots: breestbane
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh a' chlèibh m
• Slovak: hrudná kosť f
• Slovene: pŕsnica f
• Spanish: esternón (es) m
• Swedish: bröstben (sv) n
• Tagalog: butundibdib
• Telugu: ఉరోస్థి (te) (urōsthi)
• Turkish: göğüs kemiği (tr), sternum (tr), iman tahtası (tr)
• Vietnamese: xương ức (vi)
• Welsh: asgwrn dwyfron m