Ribs
- Type
- Bone
- Japanese
- 肋骨
- Reading
- ろっこつ
- English
- Ribs
- Latin
- Costae
- Main functions
- Protection / Respiration
Connections
Articulates with
Connected by
Muscles arising here
Muscles inserting here
Articles
Also mentioned in
- Scalene muscles: origins, insertions and cervical nerve supply of the anterior, middle and posterior scalenes
- Scalene muscles (anterior, middle, posterior): attachments, actions and the structures in the interscalene space
- Costotransverse ligament: the three ligaments joining rib and vertebra
- External oblique: origin, insertion, trunk rotation and English name
- Sternum: where it is, manubrium, body and xiphoid process
- External intercostal muscles: location, fibers and breathing
- Iliocostalis cervicis: position and action of the neck erector spinae
- Serratus posterior superior: origin, insertion and role in inspiration
- Iliocostalis thoracis: location, attachments and function
- Diaphragm: position, origins, phrenic nerve and the three openings
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