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Midsternal line

Part of the surface anatomy of the anterior thorax

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ6843024 ↗
Source-derived summary

The midsternal line is used to describe a part of the surface anatomy of the anterior thorax. The midsternal line runs vertical down the middle of the sternum.

It can be interpreted as a component of the median plane.

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“Midsternal line” enters the record as part of the surface anatomy of the anterior thorax. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Midsternal, line and Part can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 39-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Midsternal, line and Part.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q6843024. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Midsternal line” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.