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Meaning of floating rib

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

floating rib

noun

Definitions

  1. Either of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage.

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