True ribs
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| Anterior surface of sternum and costa cartilages. (True ribs are first seven.) | |
| Gray's | subject #28 123 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | c_58/12262740 |
The first seven ribs are connected behind with the vertebral column, and in front, through the intervention of the costal cartilages, with the sternum; they are called true ribs or vertebro-sternal ribs.
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