Usually means: Muscle running from skull to sternum.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word sternocleidomastoid:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sternocleidomastoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. sternocleidomastoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sternocleidomastoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sternocleidomastoid: Vocabulary.com
  5. sternocleidomastoid: Wiktionary
  6. sternocleidomastoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. sternocleidomastoid: Dictionary.com
  8. Sternocleidomastoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. sternocleidomastoid: Rhymezone
  10. sternocleidomastoid: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sternocleidomastoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. sternocleidomastoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sternocleidomastoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sternocleidomastoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. sternocleidomastoid: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sternocleidomastoids as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sternocleidomastoid)

adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to or involving the sternum, the clavicle and the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of sternocleidomastoid muscle. [(anatomy) A long thick superficial muscles on each side of the anterior neck which arises by one head from the first segment of the sternum and by a second from the inner part of the clavicle, that inserts into the mastoid process of the temporal bone and that acts especially to bend, flex, rotate and extend the head.]

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