thoracic cage

Most people have 12 pairs of ribs, which form the thoracic cage.

He dropped it into the thoracic cage of one skeleton and said: "Come on."

The bony portion is known as the thoracic cage.

These muscles are attached between each rib and are important in manipulating the width of the thoracic cage.

The transversus thoracis muscle lies internal to the thoracic cage, anteriorly.

The Scapulohumeral rhythm is the movement of the scapula across the thoracic cage in relation to the humerus.

Stuffed within the thoracic cage was shell-pink tissue continuous except for occasional cavities, more like a brain than anything else.

It is almost completely without function, but it separates the thoracic cage from the parietal pleura.

To accommodate the decreased surface area, thoracic cage expansion (barrel chest) and diaphragm contraction (flattening) take place.

It is an extension of the endothoracic fascia that exists between the parietal pleura and the thoracic cage.

In humans, it is a flat bone, roughly triangular in shape, placed on a posterolateral aspect of the thoracic cage.

As blood had poured out of the severed artery, filling the space between the lung and the thoracic cage, he had found himself unable to breathe.

Contraction of this muscle aids in exertional expiration by decreasing the transverse diameter of the thoracic cage.

In primates, the thoracic cage is wide and the scapula is rotated onto its posterior side to have the glenoid fossa face laterally.

"I cut down through the thoracic cage, through the skin," he said by way of explaining what is known as the "Y" incision, the start of the autopsy.

The pleural cavity is the potential space between the parietal pleura, lining the inner wall of the thoracic cage, and the visceral pleura lining the lungs.

Expiration, which physiologically depends completely on lung elastic recoil, increasingly depends on the thoracic cage and abdominal muscle action, particularly in the end expiratory phase.

Lymphatic pump treatment techniques increase lymph flow through the external application of forces to the thoracic cage, abdomen, pelvic diaphragm, legs, and over the spleen and the liver.

Cardio-thoracic ratio is the "transverse diameter of the heart, as determined by x-ray examination, compared with that of the thoracic cage, used to help determine enlargement of the heart."

Between them these two joints allow a wide range of movements for the shoulder girdle, much because of the lack of a bone-to-bone contact between the scapula and the thoracic cage.

Working the saw twenty centimeters across the top, then down on two sides another twenty centimeters, then across the bottom, he was able to lift free a glutinous section of the thoracic cage.

The human rib cage, also known as the thoracic cage, is a bony and cartilaginous structure which surrounds the thoracic cavity and supports the pectoral girdle, forming a core portion of the human skeleton.

Whilst under most circumstances, individuals respire via eupnea, exercise and other forms of physiological stress can cause the body to require forced expiration, rather than the simple elastic recoil of the thoracic cage, lungs and diaphragm.