Usage examples (6)

• asternal ribs
• The liver, in its healthy state and normal proportions, protrudes for an inch (more or less) below the margins of the right asternal ribs.
• As the sternal ribs degenerate into the "false" asternal or incomplete ribs from before, obliquely backward down to the last dorsal vertebra, so the thoracic space takes...
• So true is it that all the costal region (the asternal as well as the sternal) is a pulmonary enclosure, that any instrument which pierces intercostal space must wound...