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Is the angle of the rib on the anterior or posterior side of the body?
Anterior.
Is the angle of the rib on the anterior side or posterior side of the body?
Anterior.
Which type of rib has no anterior attachment?
The floating ribs
What are your rib attach to this at the front?
The Sternum, or breastbone.
The first rib is deep to which bone along the anterior thorax?
The clavicle or collar bone.
The heart is what anatomical position to the ribs?
the heart is medial/proximal to the rib cage
What structure is anterior to the heart?
Inferior to the heart: Stomach Superior to the heart: Brain Anterior to the heart: Rib cage Posterior to the heart: Spine Latereral to the heart: Lungs
What is costa bone?
It is a rib or a riblike part, such as the midrib of a leaf or a thickened anterior vein or margin of an insect's wing.
What bone do the ribs connect to?
In the anterior position (front), the ribs connect to the sternum (breast bone) and in the posterior position (back), the vertebrae. There are free ribs that do not attach at the sternum, they just attach at the vertebrae.
Which bone does the pectoral minor attach to?
The coracoid process of the scapula and 2nd thru fifth rib
What is the Rib muscle?
There is no "rib muscle." Ribs are bones attached to the vertebral column in the back and the sternum anteriorly. There are muscles attached to the ribs - several, in fact. In between the ribs are the internal and external intercostal muscles, there are the pectoral muscles, the serratus anterior and serratus ventralis, the latissimus dorsi also attaches to the ribs. Internally, the diaphragm attaches to the inferior ribs. Many of the strap muscles of the back attach to the ribs. There are others as well.
WHAT IS RIB MUSCLES?
There is no "rib muscle." Ribs are bones attached to the vertebral column in the back and the sternum anteriorly. There are muscles attached to the ribs - several, in fact. In between the ribs are the internal and external intercostal muscles, there are the pectoral muscles, the serratus anterior and serratus ventralis, the latissimus dorsi also attaches to the ribs. Internally, the diaphragm attaches to the inferior ribs. Many of the strap muscles of the back attach to the ribs. There are others as well.
