Rib 1
Costa I
A head and tubercle articulating with its vertebra, an angle where it turns, and a shaft ending in a costal cartilage.
- System
- Bone
- Region
- Trunk
- Sides
- Paired: left and right
Measured on the specimen
What the rib 1 is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
- Thoracic vertebra 111%
- First costal cartilage16%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Rib 1
- Latin (NAV)
- Costa I
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
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