Sentence examples for sacral rib from inspiring English sources

Sacral rib represents an uncommon pathology in which rib-like structures arise from the sacrum.

In an earlier study by Galton in 1982, it was suggested that individual difference in the sacral rib count of both Kentrosaurus and Dacentrurus might be an indication of dimorphism: females would have had an extra pair of sacral ribs, having also the first sacral vertebra connected to the ilium, in addition to the subsequent four sacrals.

On the ventral surface, the sacral rib has an anteroposteriorly short attachment to the vertebral centrum.

The transverse process is fused to the sacral rib, forming a single complex that extensively contacts the ilium.

The sacral rib markedly expands towards the ilium as a flat lamina that extends obliquely in an anterodorsal-posteroventral direction.

This morphology is absent in the transverse process and sacral rib of the anteriormost and posteriormost sacral vertebrae.

Even though the sacrum itself is distinguishing, its sacral ribs resemble Camarasaurus.

This was reinforced by the sacral ribs becoming longer towards the front.

The sacral ribs were wider at their attachment areas with the ilium, but were not fused into a sacral yoke.

The pectoral girdle is supported by muscle, and the well-developed pelvic girdle is attached to the backbone by a pair of sacral ribs.

The morphology of the transverse processes and sacral ribs also indicates that the internal sacral elements are the primordial sacrals.