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    The breastbone is the long, flat bone down the middle of the front of your chest. The top seven pairs of ribs join onto it, so together they make a strong box around the heart and lungs. You can feel it if you press the centre of your chest. Doctors often use the Latin name sternum; breastbone is the plain English word. Though actually, breast here is the old meaning “chest”, not only a woman's breast — men, women, and children all have a breastbone. It is not the , which sits higher, near the shoulder.

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組成From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān, which is breast + bone. breast here = the chest, bone = bone.

同家族的字

  • breastthe first half — here the old sense “chest”, not only a woman's breast
  • bonethe second half — the hard part of the skeleton

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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breastbonenoun

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    anatomymedicinesciencesThe central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.

    • 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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。