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Intercostal

noun
1.
Muscles between the ribs; they contract during inspiration.  Synonyms: intercostal muscle, musculus intercostalis.



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... Innumerable trains or tribes of other motions are associated with these muscular motions which are excited by irritation; as by the stimulus of the blood in the right chamber of the heart, the lungs are induced to expand themselves; and the pectoral and intercostal muscles, and the diaphragm, act at the same time by their associations with them. And when the pharinx is irritated by agreeable food, the muscles of deglutition are brought into action by association. Thus when a greater light falls on the ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
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Words linked to "Intercostal" :   rib, skeletal muscle, striated muscle, anatomy, general anatomy


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