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What protects your brain and your heart and lungs?
The breastbone (sternum) and the ribs are connected by cartilage to form the "thoracic cage" that covers the heart and lungs. It is not unusual for ribs to be fractured when using exterior compression on the heart, as is done in CPR.
Is the lungs inferior Superior anterior posterior or lateral to the ribs?
the lungs are anterior to the ribs
What bones do you think protect the lungs?
The lungs and heart are protected and surrounded by the ribs called the rib cage.
What part of the body protects your lungs?
the ribs make a cage that protects your heart and lungs.
Why ribs have joints?
Ribs have joints to protect our lungs.
What organs are protected by by the ribs?
the heart and the lungs
Where is the eighth rib located?
The 8th rib is located directly beneath the "true" ribs that are connected to your sternum. The 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th rib are called false ribs since the are not connected to your sternum but they ar connected to your vertabrae
What is the rib cage protects?
well the ribs protect the lungs and i think the heart.
What is behind your ribs?
your lungs
What to organs do the ribs protect?
The organs protected by the rib cage include the heart, lungs, stomach, and liver.
What type bones does rib have?
Ribs are called 'flat bones'. As opposed to long, short, and irregular bones, the function of flat bones is to have broad surfaces for protection of organs and attachment of muscles. Ribs themselves are divided into three categories: True ribs are the first 7 pairs, connected to the spine. In the front, true ribs connect to the breastbone or sternum by means of coastal cartilage. The next 3 pairs are false ribs. They are shorter than true ribs and connected to the spine. In the front, false ribs are connected to the lowest true rib. The last 2 pairs are floating ribs. They are the smallest kind of rib. They are attached to the spine. In the front, floating ribs are not connected to anything.
What is ribs?
ribs are either a type of food or they are what are covering your lungs from the front
