What is the meaning of Sternum?

(n.) A plate of cartilage or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.
(n.) The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.

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