A set of twelve curved bones which connect to the vertebral column posteriorly, and terminate anteriorly as costal cartilage. Together, they form a protective cage around the internal thoracic organs.
    

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Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.

God animates Adam and operates on his rib. Etching by G.B. Leonetti after C. Cencioni after Nicola Pisano.

Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.

A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.

The first rib lesion, the surgeon and the osteopathic physician / Ray G. Hulbert.

Ueber einen Fall von Sarcom der Rippen ... / vorgelegt von Georg Brandl.

Ligaments attached to the sternum and the cartilages of the ribs: anterior view (above) and posterior view (below). Line engraving by A. Bell after J. Weitbrecht, 1798.

Thoracoplasty. Part 1.

Account of a resection of the ribs and the pleura / read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, April 27, 1818, by M. Le Chevalier Richerand ; translated by Thomas Wilson.

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The first rib lesion, the surgeon and the osteopathic physician / Ray G. Hulbert.

Ueber einen Fall von Sarcom der Rippen ... / vorgelegt von Georg Brandl.

Ligaments attached to the sternum and the cartilages of the ribs: anterior view (above) and posterior view (below). Line engraving by A. Bell after J. Weitbrecht, 1798.

Thoracoplasty. Part 1.

Account of a resection of the ribs and the pleura / read before the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, April 27, 1818, by M. Le Chevalier Richerand ; translated by Thomas Wilson.