Usually means: Upper part of insect's sternum.
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  1. episternum: Merriam-Webster
  2. episternum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. episternum: Collins English Dictionary
  4. episternum: Wordnik
  5. episternum: Wiktionary
  6. episternum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. episternum: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Episternum, episternum: Dictionary.com
  9. Episternum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Episternum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. episternum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Episternum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. episternum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. episternum: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. episternum: Encyclopedia

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  2. episternum: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (episternum)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The upper segment of the sternum
▸ noun:  (entomology) The anterior part of the pleuron of an insect.

Similar:
preepisternum, presternum, sternebra, mesosternum, pentasternum, mesanepisternum, sternum, interclavicle, hyposternum, mesepisternum, more...

Opposite:
hyposternum, underside

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Similar:
preepisternum, presternum, sternebra, mesosternum, pentasternum, mesanepisternum, sternum, interclavicle, hyposternum, mesepisternum, more...

Opposite:
hyposternum, underside



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