"First you take the liver out, then you open the rib cage and take the innards out.
Rarely lost for words, the CNN presenter and former Daily Mirror editor revealed he suffered a broken rib in the nets stunt, which was condemned as dangerous and unnecessary by former New Zealand international Richard Hadlee.
She had significant internal injuries including a deep cut to the liver, five rib fractures, and bleeding on the brain and eyes indicating that she had been shaken.
When Tommy Caldwell injured a rib on a previous attempt on Dawn Wall he kept his fingers strong on a plywood wall at home.
The artist built a prototype incorporating Rolls-Royce parts, rib bones and reptile vertebrae.
But the crucial zone from belt-buckle to rib is once more looking correct.
The DIYers rib him gently about banks and expenses, but hear him out and promise him their vote.
Part of the reason that breathing becomes hard for emphysemics is that their rib cages and diaphragms become enlarged and misshapen as their lungs expand.
Weighing only one and a half ounces and no bigger than a pacemaker, the Transcend Implantable Gastric Stimulator sits under the skin just below the rib cage.
Indeed, even in the most fetid conditions, swimming the Nile surrounded by raw sewage, dead rats and a dog—"your hand punched through its rib cage"—she finds emotional sustenance.As the book progresses, you hear the inner voice increasingly resisting any negative thoughts.
As befits a novel about artists, Ms Barker conjures up some extraordinary images: a woman inspects a dead man's rib cage and is reminded of the roof of King's College Chapel.
