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Encyclopedia > Rib (disambiguation)
Look up rib in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Rib or RIB has various meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

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rib - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com (296 words)
In anatomy, the ribs (Latin costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage.
In reptiles, ribs sometimes occur in all vertebrae from the neck to the sacrum.
The spaces between the ribs are known as intercostal spaces; they contain the intercostal muscles, nerves, and arteries.
Rib - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (177 words)
Ribs surround the chest (Latin thorax) of land vertebrates, and protect the lungs, heart, and other internal organs of the thoracic cavity.
However, fused-on remnants of ribs can be traced in development in neck vertebrae (cervical ribs) and sacral vertebrae.
Fish can have up to four ribs on each vertebrae and this can easily be seen in the herring, although not all fish have this many.
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