Sentence examples for thoracic rib from inspiring English sources

The thoracic (rib) cage is well developed, and the sternum bears a pronounced keel for the attachment of the pectoral muscles, which move the flippers.

Fractures and dislocations of the spine occur most commonly in the neck, with consequent risk of spinal cord damage; at lower levels the thoracic rib cage makes spinal cord compression less likely.

Symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) can occur in individuals who are born with an extra rib originating from the seventh cervical vertebra (C7, or vertebra prominens); that so-called cervical (or neck) rib can compress the nerves or the vessels running over the first thoracic rib.

In the area of the lower rib cage, a reddish stain extends from the third to fifth thoracic rib (Figure 4A).

Likewise, it is currently not possible to confidently determine the original posterior edge of the stained area due to cement infill, although a reddish coloration on the succeeding long ribs would suggest that it may have been at the level of the eighth thoracic rib.

Only the proximal portion of the first thoracic rib is preserved.

In the lizards it is a cartilaginous plate articulated with the coracoid processes of the pectoral girdle and with the anterior thoracic ribs.

They are found in some lizards, where they are mostly made of cartilage, as well as crocodiles and the tuatara, and are not attached to the spine or thoracic ribs.

The material consisted of the following items, most of which were incomplete: right and left dentaries and splenials from the lower jaw measuring 75 cm long; a straight piece of the left maxilla that was described but not drawn; 20 teeth; 2 cervical vertebrae; 7 dorsal (trunk) vertebrae; 3 sacral vertebrae; 1 caudal vertebra; 4 thoracic ribs; and gastralia.

At least three of the sacral vertebrae form distinct ribs connecting the axial skeleton to the ilium of the pelvic girdle, whereas thoracic ribs and vertebrae undergo multiple fusions in the thorax (Figure 2C, 2G top; Table 2).

An X-ray examination revealed fractures in the 6th and 7th thoracic ribs and the 12th thoracic vertebra.