breastbone

See also: breast bone

English

Alternative forms

• breast bone

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast +‎ bone.

Noun

breastbone (plural breastbones)

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

Synonyms

• sternum

Translations

the central narrow bone in the front of the chest

• Arabic: قَصّ m (qaṣṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: قص m (qaṣṣ)

• Armenian: կրծոսկր (hy) (krcoskr)
• Asturian: esternón (ast) m
• Bengali: বক্ষাস্থি (bokkhasthi)
• 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
• Estonian: rinnak
• Finnish: rintalasta (fi)
• French: sternum (fr) m
• Galician: esterno (gl) m
• German: Brustbein (de) n, Sternum (de) n
• Gujarati: ઉરોસ્થિ (urosthi), છાતીનું હાડકું (chātīnũ hāḍkũ)
• Hebrew: עצם החזה m (etzem ha'khaze)
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• Hindi: उरोस्थि (urosthi)
• Hungarian: szegycsont (hu), mellcsont (hu)
• Icelandic: bringubein (is) n, brjóstbein n
• Indonesian: tulang dada, sternum, tulang rawan (id)
• Italian: sterno (it) m
• Japanese: 胸骨 (ja) (きょうこつ, kyōkotsu)
• Korean: 가슴뼈 (ko) (gaseumppyeo)
• Latin: sternum n
• 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) (jenâq)
• 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
• Slovene: pŕsnica f
• Spanish: esternón (es) m
• Swedish: bröstben (sv) n
• Tagalog: butundibdib
• Telugu: ఉరోస్థి (te) (urōsthi)