Skeletal system
Twelfth rib
Duodecima costa
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Trunk, Thorax
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Floating ribs
DescriptionUnreviewed
The phrase floating rib or vertebral rib (Latin: costae fluctuantes) refers to the two lowermost, the eleventh and twelfth rib pairs; so-called because they are attached only to the vertebrae–and not to the sternum or cartilage of the sternum.
These ribs are relatively small and delicate, and include a cartilaginous tip.
Source: Z-Anatomy · Text licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · This text comes from the source data and has not been reviewed by a person yet.
Muscle attachments
Muscles that arise here
Muscles that insert here
Names
- Latin
- Duodecima costa
- English
- Twelfth rib
- French
- Douzième côte
- Spanish
- Duodécima costilla
- Portuguese
- Décima segunda costela