| The wires holding the sternum together are permanent, but the stitches closing the wound will gradually dissolve. |
| The pedestrian suffered a fractured sternum and wrists but is now recovering at home. |
| The sternum is then divided allowing the ribs to rotate to the side a few centimeters. |
| Surgical closure of the sternum is often accomplished with stainless steel wires, but other techniques are being investigated. |
| Your body in water is really a teeter-totter with it's fulcrum somewhere between your waist and your sternum. |
| In great detail the differences are laid out between the male and female skull, spine, clavicle, sternum, coccyx, and pelvis. |
