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How to use rib cage in a sentence

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By doing this, there is generally a lift of the rib cage and a straightening of the upper spine or cervical vertebra.
Overexhaling as you press the weight up causes your shoulders to come forward and your rib cage to compress as your lungs deflate.
In addition to massing up the pectorals, the heavy breathing also encourages rib cage expansion.
A person's height and riding style set the level and angle of the rowel in relation to the horse's rib cage.
I'm coached on how to bend down by contracting my abs and curving my rib cage in.
In addition, the rib cage attaches the sternum in front to the vertebral column behind.
He reached her bed and stood over her silently, watching her rib cage move up and down slowly as she breathed.
But she held firm, and when he realized she was serious, panic gripped him, clamping his rib cage like a vise.
He was able to dodge, but only partially, and the blow caught him on the outside of his rib cage.
The angle between the costal fibers of the left diaphragm and the rib cage was measured under radioscopic examination with a goniometer.
Pilates work involves engaging the muscles that encircle your torso from your lower rib cage to below your beltline.
Supporting this sinewy armor plate was a rib cage that seemed to have been designed more for a silverback gorilla than a man.
He could feel the sweats in his hands, and the heartbeat pounding against his rib cage.
The accident left him with limited movement on his right side and he suffered a broken rib cage and collarbone and collapsed lungs.
So the left side of my rib cage and breastbone is normal, and the right side is pigeon-breasted.
The muscle between the ribs is called an intercostal and it allows the rib cage to open and close like a bellows as we inhale and exhale.
The surgeon then cuts the breastbone down the middle and opens the rib cage to expose the heart.
The steel rib cage anchors an exterior surface that ripples and unfurls with the energy of a flag snapping in a brisk wind.
Pain below the right rib cage, called biliary colic, is usually the first symptom.
The rib cage presses down on the pelvis, reducing thoracic and abdominal space.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Her left fist rammed solidly into Mihul's bare brown midriff, just under the arch of the rib cage.
The skeleton of the trunk consists of the spinal column, the rib cage, the shoulder girdle, and the hip girdle.
The Barbarian's knife slipped upward into Dugald's rib cage, and suddenly Geoffrey was drenched with blood.
There was a dead silence in the room as she stood there, eyes closed, and slowly ran her fingers over his rib cage.
The knife had pierced Dave's chest until the hilt pressed against his rib cage.
The rib cage marked sharp lines on the pavement with shadow from the lamps' glare.
His heart fluttered in his rib cage, skipping beats, then pounding hard.
The latter function involves some degree of motion of the rib cage.
The rib cage includes the breastbone and twelve pairs of ribs.
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