Flat bone in the middle front part of the rib cage

The scapula (figures 1-2) and the clavicle (figures 3-4) and the sternum seen from the front (figure 5). Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Sternum and right side of rib cage, seen from behind. Watercolour by G.E. Blenkins after a design engraved by A. Bell, 1831.

Sternum and right side of rib cage seen from behind. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.J. Sue, 1798.

Sternum, costal cartilages and ribs: five figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.J. Sue, 1798.

Die Resectio sterni mit Bericht über ein Sarcoma retrosternale ... / von Edmund Jaenel.

A clinical atlas of sternal bone marrow / by Carl Reich.

xi, 237 pages, 30 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 37 cm.

A monograph on the structure and development of the shoulder-girdle and sternum on the Vertebrata / by W. Kitchen Parker.

Beitrag zur Kasuistik der Sternal-Sarcome ... / vorgelegt von Wilhelm Christ.

Les kystes congénitaux de la région sternale / Anatole Poingt.

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Sternum

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Die Resectio sterni mit Bericht über ein Sarcoma retrosternale ... / von Edmund Jaenel.

A clinical atlas of sternal bone marrow / by Carl Reich.

A monograph on the structure and development of the shoulder-girdle and sternum on the Vertebrata / by W. Kitchen Parker.

Beitrag zur Kasuistik der Sternal-Sarcome ... / vorgelegt von Wilhelm Christ.

Les kystes congénitaux de la région sternale / Anatole Poingt.

Sternum

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Works from the collections

Die Resectio sterni mit Bericht über ein Sarcoma retrosternale ... / von Edmund Jaenel.

A clinical atlas of sternal bone marrow / by Carl Reich.

A monograph on the structure and development of the shoulder-girdle and sternum on the Vertebrata / by W. Kitchen Parker.

Beitrag zur Kasuistik der Sternal-Sarcome ... / vorgelegt von Wilhelm Christ.

Les kystes congénitaux de la région sternale / Anatole Poingt.

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