True ribs

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True ribs
Anterior surface of sternum and costa cartilages. (True ribs are first seven.)
Gray's subject #28 123
Dorlands/Elsevier c_58/12262740

The first seven ribs are connected behind with the vertebral column, and in front, through the intervention of the costal cartilages, with the sternum; they are called true ribs or vertebro-sternal ribs.

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