ventral ribs

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• Ventral — Pertaining to the front or anterior of a structure. Ventral comes from the Latin venter meaning belly. Something that is ventral is oriented toward the belly, toward the front of the body. The ribs are paired elastic arches of bone that extend… …   Medical dictionary

• Ventral body cavity — The ventral body cavity is a human body cavity that is in the anterior (front) aspect of the human body. It is made up of the thoracic cavity, and the abdominopelvic cavity. The abdominopelvic cavity is further separated into the abdominal cavity …   Wikipedia

• ventral rib — one of the ribs surrounding and protecting the viscera and articulating with the parapophyses of the vertebrae. Also called pleural or pleuroperitoneal ribs …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• True ribs — Anterior surface of sternum and costa cartilages. (True ribs are first seven.) Gray s subject #28 123 The first seven ribs ar …   Wikipedia

• Fore ribs — Rib Rib, n. [AS. rib, ribb; akin to D. rib, G. rippe, OHG. rippa, rippi, Dan. ribbe, Icel. rif, Russ. rebro.] 1. (Anat.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax. [1913 Webster] Note …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• radial ribs — (MOLLUSCA: Bivalvia) Ribs or bands of color meeting in a point at the umbones and diverging toward the ventral margin …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• Rib — This article is about the part of the skeleton. For other uses, see Rib (disambiguation). Single human rib detail The …   Wikipedia

• rib — one of a series of long, thin bony rods articulating with the apophyses of the vertebrae and supporting the trunk musculature. The ventral ends are free. They consist of two types: the dorsal, epipleural or true ribs which arise from the… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• haemal rib — a misnomer for a ventral rib (one of the ribs surrounding and protecting the viscera and articulating with the parapophyses of the vertebrae) based on the fallacy that it was homologous with a haemal arch bone. As some fish have ventral ribs on… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Baldellia — Taxobox name = Baldellia image caption = Baldellia ranunculoides regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Liliopsida ordo = Alismatales familia = Alismataceae genus = Baldellia genus authority = Parl. subdivision ranks = Species… …   Wikipedia

• sauropterygian — sau·rop·ter·yg·i·an (sô rŏp tə rĭjʹē ən) n. Any of various extinct aquatic reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia that flourished during the Mesozoic Era and included the plesiosaurs. adj. Of or relating to a sauropterygian.   [From New Latin… …   Universalium