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Intercostal

adjective
1.
Located or occurring between the ribs.
noun
1.
Muscles between the ribs; they contract during inspiration.  Synonyms: intercostal muscle, musculus intercostalis.



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"Intercostal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Innumerable trains or tribes of other motions are associated with these muscular motions which are excited by irritation; as by the stimulus of the blood in the right chamber of the heart, the lungs are induced to expand themselves; and the pectoral and intercostal muscles, and the diaphragm, act at the same time by their associations with them. And when the pharinx is irritated by agreeable food, the muscles of deglutition are brought into action by association. Thus when a greater light falls on the ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
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... raise the blood pressure from 20 to 30 mm., and if such excitement occurs in high tension cases there is often a systolic blow in the second intercostal space at the right of the sternum. This may not be due to narrowing of the aortic orifice; it may be due to a sclerosis of the aorta. On the other hand, it may be due entirely to the hastened blood stream from the nervous excitability. This is probably the case if this sound ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.
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... fluid. The operation is performed with a combined instrument called the trocar and cannula. The puncture is made in the lower part of the chest, in the space between the eighth and ninth ribs. Wounding of the intercostal artery is avoided by inserting the instrument as near as possible to the anterior edge of the rib. If the operation is of benefit, it is only so when performed before the strength is lowered beyond recovery. The operation merely receives ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
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