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(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

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rib

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rib

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/ɹɪb/

Noun

broadly Ireland colloquial archaic

(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

Japanese Meaning

肋骨

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The doctor found a hairline fracture in the patient's rib after the fall.

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医師は転倒後、患者の肋骨に微細な骨折を発見した。

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(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.

On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

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