they are connected to the breastbone and the spine
No. It is anterior to the spine.
The sternal area (the area near the breastbone) is superior to the umbilical area (the area near the bellybutton or navel.)
No, the sternum is NOT the same thing as vertebrae. The sternum is the breastbone. Vertebra are in the spine.
The preferred term is "ventral" side, which is (in animals that have a spine) the side away from the spine, or in other words the "belly side" (the side the spine is on is the "dorsal" side).For most four-legged animals in a normal standing or walking position, the dorsal side is the 'top' and the ventral side is the bottom.
I always got dorsal (down the back or spine) and ventral (down the underside) confused, until I thought of an easy way to remember it. The ventral goes down to where the animal "vents" (poops). So the dorsal blood vessel is the vessel that runs down the back, while the ventral blood vessel runs down the underside.
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., The ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
If an animal has any vertebrae, they have them between their head and the tip of their tails and they are usually part of a ventral structure. Vertebrae form the spine.
Your breastbone is called the sternum.
The breastbone is anteromedial to the shoulder blade.
Skeletal abnormalities can be extreme and include dwarfism, kyphosis (outward-curved spine), prominent breastbone, flat feet, and genu-valgum (knock-knees).
Sternocostal or costosternal means pertaining to the breastbone and ribs.Costosternal