Assertion: rib cage's rib | /r/CapableOf | provide passage
Facets:
value: for blood vessels
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Glossary angle of the rib portion of rib with greatest curvature; together, the rib angles form the most posterior extent of the thoracic cage body of the rib shaft portion of a rib clavicular notch paired notches located on the superior-lateral sides of the sternal manubrium, for articulation with the clavicle costal cartilage hyaline cartilage structure attached to the anterior end of each rib that provides for either direct or indirect attachment of most ribs to the sternum costal groove shallow groove along the inferior margin of a rib that provides passage for blood vessels and a nerve false ribs vertebrochondral ribs 8–12 whose costal cartilage either attaches indirectly to the sternum via the costal cartilage of the next higher rib or does not attach to the sternum at all floating ribs vertebral ribs 11–12 that do not attach to the sternum or to the costal cartilage of another rib head of the rib posterior end of a rib that articulates with the bodies of thoracic vertebrae jugular (suprasternal) notch shallow notch located on superior surface of sternal manubrium manubrium expanded, superior portion of the sternum neck of the rib narrowed region of a rib, next to the rib head sternal angle junction line between manubrium and body of the sternum and the site for attachment of the second rib to the sternum true ribs vertebrosternal ribs 1–7 that attach via their costal cartilage directly to the sternum tubercle of the rib small bump on the posterior side of a rib for articulation with the transverse process of a thoracic vertebra xiphoid process small process that forms the inferior tip of the sternum