ribcage

Examples

• All

• I feel like my heart has been wrenched out of my ribcage.

  Death at a Funeral (2007)

• A spot in the center of my chest and another on my lower right ribcage didn't feel right.

  Fiction book (2000)

• A broken ribcage means a slow death for the desperate animal.

  March of the Dinosaurs (2011)

• The device you are wearing is hooked into your ribcage.

  Saw III (2006)

• During the long afternoon of uncertain sleep, a heavy, almost hot pressure seemed to swell in his ribcage.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Andy saw below Bryn's ribcage the flowering of a huge blue and yellow bruise.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Mogul was dead, the center of his ribcage pulped, twenty centimeters of his spine missing.

  Fiction book (2000)

• With my fingernails, I scrape off the dried blood from her chest. I run my fingers over her ribcage, miraculously intact; dog-like.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Clutching my spear in sweaty palms, I crouched as graceful animals vaulted overhead, ribcages heaving.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The doctor explained that the ribcage protects both the heart and lungs from injury.

Synonyms

C

chest

vsribcage

∞ 1.0

The front part of the body between the neck and stomach that holds the heart and lungs

is the curved bones protecting those organs rather than the whole area

R

rib cage

vsribcage

15 2.8

A set of curved bones that protect the heart and lungs

is the same meaning but written as a single word

T

thorax

vsribcage

• Specialized

5 7.7

The body area between the neck and the belly that forms the chest

is the bony set that surrounds and protects organs in that region

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology