rib
rib is a topic covered in the Taber's Medical Dictionary.
To view the entire topic, please log in or purchase a subscription.
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 24th Edition Online + App from F.A. Davis and Unbound Medicine. Find 75,000 medical and nursing definitions. Download to iPhone, iPad, and Android. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
(rib)
To hear audio pronunciation of this topic, purchase a subscription or log in.One of a series of 12 pairs of narrow, curved bones extending laterally and anteriorly from the sides of the thoracic vertebrae and forming a part of the skeletal thorax. With the exception of the vertebral ribs, they are connected to the sternum by costal cartilages.
RIB CAGE Anterior view
RIB CAGE
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please log in or purchase a subscription --
(rib)
To hear audio pronunciation of this topic, purchase a subscription or log in.One of a series of 12 pairs of narrow, curved bones extending laterally and anteriorly from the sides of the thoracic vertebrae and forming a part of the skeletal thorax. With the exception of the vertebral ribs, they are connected to the sternum by costal cartilages.
RIB CAGE Anterior view
RIB CAGE
There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.
© 2000–2022 Unbound Medicine, Inc. All rights reserved