False ribs

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False ribs
Anterior surface of sternum and costa cartilages. (False ribs are last five.)
Latin costae spuriae
Gray's subject #28 123
Dorlands/Elsevier c_58/12262733

Excluding the first seven ribs, the remaining five are false ribs.

Of these:

  • the first three (eighth, ninth, and tenth rib) have their cartilages attached to the cartilage of the rib above (vertebro-chondral):
  • the last two (eleventh rib and twelfth rib) are free at their anterior extremities and are termed floating ribs or vertebral ribs.

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