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Definition of ribcage in English: ribcagenounˈrɪbkeɪdʒ The bony frame formed by the ribs round the chest. Example sentencesExamples - My instincts are sharp and I easily catch it before it rams into my ribcage.
- He had dislocated a cervical vertebra and torn a cartilage in his lower ribcage, and was ordered by his doctors not to train, let alone compete.
- Pull your tailbone underneath you and your ribcage up away from your hips, elongating your spine.
- Skeletons will use their skulls and ribcages to produce infernal ditties sure to lead your ears into the fairy circles of hell.
- In the emergency feeding centre, Malawian nuns feed withered infants with protruding ribcages an emergency mix.
- Sitting in it is a two-foot high rubber skeleton, its skull slumped forward onto its ribcage.
- You may see the soft tissues of the neck and the area below the ribcage pull inwards during attempts to breathe in.
- Curved, diaphanous glass roofs are supported at 8m intervals by gently arching steel beams, like great ribcages.
- He didn't need a stethoscope to hear my heart clamoring against my ribcage.
- There was a huge gash on the side of her ribcage that extended half-way across her chest.
- The neat, putty-coloured ribbing of the pectoral muscles forms two perfect wings over the ribcage.
- He could feel the stinging pain in his wounded chest with every rise and fall of his ribcage.
- In monkeys, the shoulder blades are on the sides of the ribcage, the way they are in dogs.
- Sticking with the Raptors, Antonio Davis injured his ribcage and will miss some time as it heals.
- Heather grinned at him and poked her perfectly manicured fingernail into his ribcage.
- His heart began to beat a furious rhythm inside his ribcage and his throat constricted tightly in fear.
- Because of the shell, the pectoral and pelvic girdles are uniquely located within the ribcage.
- My heart beat a little harder against my ribcage and I found it a little harder to swallow.
- My legs had gone numb and my heart was slamming against my ribcage, threatening to pop right out of my chest.
- We move into the chamber and carefully pick our way between heaps of skulls and ribcages.
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