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Remember that superficial means closer to the skin and deep makes farther away (the core) from the skin. Therefore, the ribs are closer to the skin, so they are superficial to the lungs, and vice versa.
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What to organs do the ribs protect?
The organs protected by the rib cage include the heart, lungs, stomach, and liver.
What part of the body does the ribs protect?
The ribs protect your lungs (along with the sternum, which protects the heart).
What organs are under your ribs?
Heart and Lungs
What is the use of the ribs?
it protects your heart and lungs
Why do you have ribs?
The ribs support and protect the lungs, and to some extent protect other internal organs.
Is the lungs inferior Superior anterior posterior or lateral to the ribs?
the lungs are anterior to the ribs
How may individual ribs lack an anterior attachment?
how many individual ribs lack an anterior attachment
Are the lungs anterior or posterior to the spinal cord?
If you refer to lungs in humans, then the lungs are anterior to the spine
What bones are anterior to your scapulae?
The ribs
What is inside ribs?
Lungs
Ribs numbered 11 and 12 are true ribs because they have no anterior attachments?
False
Which type of rib has no anterior attachment?
The floating 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 to organs do the ribs protect?
The organs protected by the rib cage include the heart, lungs, stomach, and liver.
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
