Interchondral articulations

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Interchondral articulations
Sternocostal and interchondral articulations seen from the front
Latin Articulationes interchondrales
Gray's subject #77 304

The interchondral articulations are the joints formed between the costal cartilages of the ribs.

The contiguous borders of the sixth, seventh, and eighth, and sometimes those of the ninth and tenth, costal cartilages articulate with each other by small, smooth, oblong facets.

Each articulation is enclosed in a thin articular capsule, lined by synovial membrane and strengthened laterally and medially by ligamentous fibers (interchondral ligaments) which pass from one cartilage to the other.

Sometimes the fifth costal cartilages, more rarely the ninth and tenth, articulate by their lower borders with the adjoining cartilages by small oval facets; more frequently the connection is by a few ligamentous fibers.

See also

  • Human rib cage
  • Rib

References

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

Joints and ligaments of torso (TA A03.02–04, GA 3.299)
Vertebral
Of vertebral bodies
  • no ligaments
Thorax
  • no ligaments
Costochondral
  • no ligaments
Pelvis
Syndesmoses of pelvic girdle

M: JNT

anat (h/c, u, t, l)/phys

noco (arth/defr/back/soft)/cong, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug (M01C, M4)

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