adv. Anat. [f. STERN-UM + -ad: see DEXTRAD.] Towards the sternum or the sternal aspect.
1803. J. Barclay, New Anat. Nomencl., 166. Sternad [will signify] towards the sternal [aspect]. Ibid. (1808), Muscular Motions, 237. This vein … advances sternad, sinistrad, and sacrad. Ibid., 333. The dorsal muscles are more numerous, more powerful … than their antagonists which are situated sternad.
1814. J. H. Wishart, trans. Scarpa’s Treat. Hernia, Mem. 1. 19. The aponeurosis … attached anteriorly [note Sternad] to the linea alba.
