Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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costal cartilage | Yes | No | No | No |
costa | Yes | No | No | No |
costal cartilage (noun) | costa (noun) |
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the cartilages that connect the sternum and the ends of the ribs; its elasticity allows the chest to move in respiration | any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) |
a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) |