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any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium

one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum

the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration

a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement