intercostal muscles. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The ribs are moved in respiration by two superficial muscular layers, known as the intercostal muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath] Reference
The ribs are situated one below the other in such a manner that spaces called intercostal spaces are left between them. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 4b. The Ribs] Reference
Eleven of them are situated between the ribs, and are therefore termed intercostal; the twelfth lies below the last rib. From Wordnik.com. [IX. Neurology. 6c. The Thoracic Nerves] Reference
The gulf intercostal water way runs past the city. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005] Reference
The storm surge has come in off of the intercostal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005] Reference
The intercostal artery at K is not of any considerable size. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
You can see it, I'm sure, by the white caps on the intercostal water ways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005] Reference
We were driving up and down A-1, the intercostal highway outside of Hollywood. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005] Reference
The descending thoracic part of the aorta, giving off b b, the intercostal arteries. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Up until about (UNINTELLIGIBLE) rolling the bridge over the intercostal to the town. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004] Reference
The knife was sticking out of his chest, between the third and fourth intercostal space. From Wordnik.com. [Too Many Spies Spoil The Case]
The tropical storm warning is in affect from intercostal city to the Alabama Florida border. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2004] Reference
Obvious increase in girth, fulness of the intercostal spaces, or gravitation ecchymosis was rare. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
A lucky angle; straight in and it would have gone deep into the intercostal muscles between the ribs. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Right now, we're just -- right now, we're just east of the Industrial Canal or the intercostal waterway. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2005] Reference
Except that a couple of weeks ago I pulled a muscle in my chest, an “intercostal” something or other. From Wordnik.com. [02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003] Reference
The spaces between the ribs are occupied by the intercostal muscles, while large muscles clothe the entire chest. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
As we take you a little further, we've noticed boats, yachts just become toys out in the open intercostal waterways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2005] Reference
And yeah, I know there are no leopards in Brazil, and that there's no such bone as an "intercostal clavicle" So what. From Wordnik.com. ["For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky"] Reference
Inspiratory stridor, with or without intercostal recession, pallor, with or without cyanosis with cough and "croupy" voice. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
If the body be transfixed through any one of the intercostal spaces, the instrument will surely wound some part of the lung. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia and sciatica have yielded much more readily than brachial or dorso-intercostal neuralgia, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
He was able to call on Jason Bay, who missed the Mets' dreadful 18-game start to the season with a strained intercostal muscle. From Wordnik.com. [Reporter's Notebook] Reference
· Alar flare (dilatation of the nostrils with each inspiration) · Chest indrawing (sternal or intercostal recession) · Cyanosis. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
As the intercostal arteries pass outwards, traversing the intercostal spaces with their accompanying nerves, they diminish in size. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Complete motor and sensory paralysis extended upwards to the third intercostal space; the breathing was almost entirely diaphragmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
But what earthly use has a man for valves in the intercostal veins which carry blood almost horizontally backward to the azygos veins?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
The contraction of the external intercostal muscles raises the ribs, and the contraction of the internal intercostals tends to lower them. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
As the ribs jut symmetrically from either side of the vertebral column, so do the intercostal arteries follow them from their own points of origin in the aorta. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The intercostal arteries occasionally, when wounded, call for the aid of the surgeon; these arteries, like all other branches of the aorta, are largest at their origin. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
So true is it that all the costal region (the asternal as well as the sternal) is a pulmonary enclosure, that any instrument which pierces intercostal space must wound the lung. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Sanchez is recovering from left shoulder surgery, while Lewis has a left intercostal strain. From Wordnik.com. [Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS] Reference
I have had a sore torn intercostal muscle for so long, the usual bladder infections and now a kidney infection. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The 36-year-old missed nine games earlier this season with an injured intercostal muscle and has one assist in five games. From Wordnik.com. [ESPNsoccernet] Reference
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