41. The operation itself started like any other open-heart procedure, with the cutting of the breastbone . 42. Don't let your hands come up any farther than your breastbone or farther down than your waist. 43. In traditional open-heart surgery, patients have their breastbones sawed in half and their chests pried open. 44. Roeun continued reading, " cut the man from his breastbone all the way down to his stomach. 45. Wild turkeys look much different from regular ones, with a high, humped breastbone and freckled white skin. 46. Just run a sharp knife down either side of the breastbone and turn it out along the rib cage. 47. Santa, however, was seriously short of breath and had a scar from his breastbone to his throat. 48. In conventional mitral valve surgery, surgeons cut through the breastbone and open up the chest with a retractor. 49. Additional drawings depict nests, feathers, and details of bird anatomy including feet, breastbones , and windpipes. 50. Place the knife against the breastbone and make an incision along the bone all the way down to the carcass.