How To Use costal In A Sentence
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
- Starting from the cardiac orifice at the incisura cardiaca, it forms an arch backward, upward, and to the left; the highest point of the convexity is on a level with the sixth left costal cartilage. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
- However, costal patterns and umbilical shape could vastly improve these capacities.
- They commence anteriorly at the sternum, in the interspaces between the cartilages of the true ribs, and at the anterior extremities of the cartilages of the false ribs, and extend backward as far as the angles of the ribs, whence they are continued to the vertebral column by thin aponeuroses, the posterior intercostal membranes. IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax
- When he stood up his respiration was maintained by his intercostals.
- He had subsequent radical excision of the recurrent nodule, including surrounding abdominal wall, costal cartilages, and ribs.
- There is also general fatigue, nausea, and gastric weakness, swollen and dropsical abdomen, and pain and tightness under the right subcostal region right front ribs. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
- The rectus abdominis muscle inserts at the fifth through seventh costal cartilage, and it helps flex the vertebral column and provide support for the torso.
- Mori has reported the vertebral, costal, and scapular origins as follows.
- But what earthly use has a man for valves in the intercostal veins which carry blood almost horizontally backward to the azygos veins? Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
