Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated beneath the sternum; lying under the breast-bone.
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- adjective anatomy situated under the
sternum
Etymologies
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Examples
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Noncardiac chest pain is defined as a substernal chest pain in the absence of significant epicardial coronary artery stenoses.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Noncardiac chest pain is defined as a substernal chest pain in the absence of significant epicardial coronary artery stenoses.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Effects from 2 to 12 Hz. Tolerance in this frequency range is usually limited by substernal or subcostal chest pain, with thresholds at approximately 1 to 2 Gz and 2 to 3 Gx. The etiology of the pain is the same for both axes of vibration: displacement of the abdominal and thoracic viscera induces stretching of the chest wall, with torsion at the costochondral junctions of the ribs.
Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009
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And by the way, for men as well, we often think, well, if I don't have crushing substernal chest pain, it's not a heart attack.
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Towards the sternal end of the ribs, on the left side, three or four of the substernal or mammary glands were found enlarged and filled with black fluid.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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Three or four of the substernal glands were found considerably enlarged, and filled with black fluid, and a cluster of the anterior mediastinal and lymphatic glands contained fluid having the same appearance.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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The heart-sounds, as heard through the stethoscope, in valvular disease, will, of course, be more distinctly ascertained at the locality of F, the right ventricle, which is immediately substernal.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Gases due to fermentation increase the distension and cause substernal pressure, discomfort, and belching.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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-- Compression of the trachea is most commonly caused by goiter, substernal or cervical, aneurysm, malignancy, or, in children, by enlarged thymus.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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I've never in ten years that I practiced had a guy get up off the table with crushing substernal chest pain say, "Doc, the guy does it down the street $2,000 cheaper, I'll see you later."
Forbes.com: News Steve Forbes 2011
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