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they are attached by cartilage formed between the actual rib and the back bone
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Is it possible to get rib cage reconstruction if your rib cage is mishapen?
it is not possible to cunstruct a rib cage again.
How can you break your rib cage?
You can break your rib cage a number of ways but overall from a blunt blow to the rib cage
What is a Rib Cage Plait?
References to:1. Lacing of the rib cage: rib cage kinesiology, Plaiting/lacing
Do whales have rib cage?
Yes, whales do have rib cage.
Are the lungs distal to the rib cage?
The rib cage is superficial to the lungs. The rib cage encloses the lungs for protection.
What is the size of human rib cage?
what is the approximate size of the human rib cage
What bone protects your heart and stomache?
Your rib cage protects your heart and stomach,because the rib cage is kind of a cage and when you get hit there,it dosent hurt your organs but it can damage the rib cage.
How many rib bones does the body have?
Your body have 12 pairs of rib bones on either side. First rib is horizontal. Then lower ones go on getting more and more oblique. Such 7 pairs of ribs are attached to Manubrium sterni and sternum bone. Eighths is attached to seventh andninthis attached to eighth. Tenth is attached to ninth. Eleventh andtwelfthare flow-ate ribs. First is attached to Manubrium sterni and second to junction of Manubrium sterni with sternum. Some times there is extra pair of rib is there attached to last cervical vertebra called as cervical rib.
What protects the lungs and supports breathing?
The Rib Cage, Sternum and the Diaphragm.
Why the last two pairs of ribs are not attached to the breast bone?
This is very good question. First rib is almost fixed. Next six ribs are attached to sternum. 8, 9 and 10th ribs are successively attached to the above ribs. 11th and 12 th ribs are hanging. First rib is almost fixed and over it the rest of the rib cage move to expand and contract. 11 th and 12 th ribs are attached to rib cage above on one hand by muscles. Below the same ribs are attached to hip bone by quadratus lumborum muscle. So this arrangement gives rib cage mobility on one hand and stability on the other hand. Two ribs give better mobility than one could have given and three ribs are not needed.
What cage protects your organs?
rib cage
What structure protects the heart and lungs?
Sternum Rib Cage Spine Scapula Clavicle.
