Usually means: Adjacent to the breastbone area.
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  1. parasternal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. parasternal: Wordnik
  3. parasternal: Wiktionary
  4. parasternal: Dictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parasternal)

▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Beside the sternum

Similar:
peristernal, retrosternal, poststernal, substernal, antesternal, suprasternal, infrasternal, supersternal, juxtapulmonary, pericostal, more...

Opposite:
distal, lateral, posterior

Phrases:
parasternal line, Parasternal heave, more...

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Similar:
peristernal, retrosternal, poststernal, substernal, antesternal, suprasternal, infrasternal, supersternal, juxtapulmonary, pericostal, more...

Opposite:
distal, lateral, posterior

Phrases:
parasternal line, Parasternal heave, more...



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