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Definition of True rib
1. Noun. One of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum.
Lexicographical Neighbors of True Rib
Literary usage of True rib
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... of the last true rib, and to those of every false rib ; and, below, to the
inner lip of the crista of the ilium; to the two outer ..."
2. Materials for the Study of Variation: Treated with Especial Regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"Cervical rib not reaching beyond the transverse process; corresponding to the
vertebral end of a true rib with capitulum and tuberculum, and articulating by ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"Clinical symptoms may result when cervical ribs project well forward, especially
from those which are attached to the first true rib, and result from ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1844)
"In this figure I have not thought it necessary to give more than the last cervical
vertebra, the first true rib, and four or five of the uppermost -al ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1847)
"... by a little osseous stylet extending between the under hide of the transverse
process and the body of the vertebra, imitating the neck of a true rib ..."
6. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1890)
"In these 70 cases the eighth true rib occurred fourteen times, or, in other words,
in 20 per cent. It occurred seven times in the females and seven times in ..."
7. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"These false ribs become shorter and shorter as they descend ; so that the seventh
true rib may be regarded as the common base of two cones, formed by the ..."
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