ribcage
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- noun
- /ˈrɪbˌkeɪdʒ/
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estructura de soporte
- The ribcage provides essential support and protection for vital organs like the heart and lungs.
Examples
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When practicing yoga, remember to lift your ribcage to improve your posture.
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It has also become increasingly popular for both male and female tattooees to be tattooed on their ribcage.
Academic text (2012) -
Several neuter Immortalists with skeletal ribcages were practicing their breathing on meditation cushions scattered across the floor.
Fiction book (1998) -
The artist created a sculpture that resembled a ribcage, symbolizing the fragility of life.
Synonyms
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An internal frame of parts that gives shape and strength to a building or machine
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A frame of curved supports under a ceiling or inside a boat
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Inside support that gives a building or machine its shape and strength
How Reinforced
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ribcage comes from rib + cage, and because the body's ribcage gives shape and support, people use the word for any internal frame that holds and protects something, such as the wooden or steel supports inside a ship or building.