Sentence examples for pair of ribs from inspiring English sources

A pair of ribs is associated with each body vertebra except for a few immediately behind the head.

WHEN Joe Vitacco speaks of "the blower room regulator that had blown its gussets and one pair of ribs," he speaks of love.

She has survived two bouts of cancer, in 1999 and 2009, and didn't miss a beat after breaking a pair of ribs in 2012.

Near the top of the block they found three thoracic vertebrae, two of which lay in anatomical position, and a pair of ribs lying haphazardly, like crossbones.

WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench.

Any rotation in combination with congenitally malformed vertebrae, magnification and distortion of position sometimes made it difficult to assess which ribs was the third pair of ribs and sometimes only one of the third ribs could be confidently identified.

In humans there are normally 12 pairs of ribs.

Most people have 12 pairs of ribs, which form the thoracic cage.

The number of pairs of ribs in mammals varies from 9 (whale) to 24 (sloth); of true ribs, from 3 to 10 pairs.

The sternum is absent in the turtles and in the snakes; in the crocodiles it is a wide plate joined by the coracoid processes and by two pairs of ribs.

The changes in increasing rates of the ultimate shear resistance owing to the additional one-pair of ribs are found to converge to 44%p from a two- to a four-, six-, eight-, and ten-rib system.