Pronunciation of rib: [ lèi gǔ ]?

Ribs, commonly known as the rib fork, is a kind of curved small bones of the human body, one end is connected to the sides of the vertebrae of the torso, the road body wall to the exhibition of the surface of the curved, the other end of the state of the swimming meat or connected to the center of the chest on the sternum.

Ribs belong to the flat bone, the human body **** 12 pairs, left and right symmetry, and the thoracic vertebrae, sternum, rib cartilage and so on and constitute the thorax, to protect the lungs, heart, liver and other organs.

The human body has 12 pairs of ribs, left and right symmetrical, the back end of the thoracic vertebrae and related joints, the front end of only the 1st -7th ribs borrowed cartilage and sternum connection, known as the true ribs; 8th -12th ribs known as the false ribs, which the 8th -10th ribs borrowed the cartilage and the cartilage on the last ribs are connected to the formation of the rib arch, the 11th and 12th ribs front end of the free, also known as the floating ribs.