Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SUBSTERNAL
SUBSTERNAL
Definitions of SUBSTERNAL
- (anatomy) under the sternum
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SUBSTERNAL in a Sentence
- Esophagitis can be asymptomatic; or can cause epigastric and/or substernal burning pain, especially when lying down or straining; and can make swallowing difficult (dysphagia).
- Substernal or left precordial pleuritic chest pain with radiation to the trapezius ridge (the bottom portion of scapula on the back) is the characteristic pain of pericarditis.
- Although the sign is most commonly described in patients with substernal goiters where the goiter "corks off" the thoracic inlet, the maneuver is potentially useful in any patient with adenopathy, tumor, or fibrosis involving the mediastinum.
- Some signs and symptoms of acute Keshan disease include dizziness, malaise, nausea, chills, loss of appetite, projectile vomiting, pallor, low arterial blood pressure (less than 80/60 mmHg), dyspnea, precardiac (anterior to the heart) or substernal (behind or below the sternum) discomfort, cardiogenic shock, and constricted veins in one's extremities.
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