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sternocostal(medicine)
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sternocostal joints(medicine)
sternocostal articulations(medicine)
sternocostal surface of heart(medicine)
radiate sternocostal ligaments(medicine)
intra-articular sternocostal ligament(medicine)
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sternocostal articulations (medicine) and torsion (iou)


sternocostal articulations (medicine)


sternocostal articulations -->
sternocostal joints


The joints between the cartilages of the first seven ribs and the sternum; synovial cavities are variable in occurrence in these joints.

Synonym: articulationes sternocostales, sternocostal articulations.


torsion (iou)



torsion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from late Latin torsio(n-) by-form of tortio(n-) from tort- pa. ppl stem of torquere twist: see -ION.]
Medicine. Pain in the abdomen, colic. LME-L17.
Medicine. A twisting of the body or a part of it, esp. of a loop of intestine, or of a testis in the scrotum. LME.
gen. The action of twisting an object by the operation of two opposing turning forces acting at right angles to its axis; a twisted condition (as) produced by this action. M16.
b. Surgery. The twisting of the cut end of an artery to stop bleeding. M19.
c. Math. The degree to which a curve departs from being planar at any given point, measured by the rate of change of the angle of the osculating plane with respect to distance along the curve. M19.
d. Zoology. The spontaneous twisting of the visceral hump of a gastropod mollusc through 180 degrees at a certain stage of larval development. L19.
Comb.: torsion-balance an instrument for measuring minute horizontal forces by means of the angle through which they twist a thin wire or filament; torsion bar a bar that is subject to torque; spec. one in the suspension of some motor vehicles, fixed so that vertical motion of the wheel assembly tends to twist the bar and is thereby absorbed; torsionmeter an instrument which measures the torsion in a rotating shaft, thus providing information about the power output of the engine driving it; torsion pendulum: working by rotating back and forth, not swinging; torsion test Engineering a test in which a material is subjected to torsion.
torsiograph noun (Mechanics) an instrument for measuring torsional oscillations of the crankshaft of an engine M20.
torsional adjective of or pertaining to torsion; caused by or resulting from torsion: M19.
torsionally adverb in respect of torsion L19.