Rib 15
Costa XV
A head and tubercle articulating with its vertebra, an angle where it turns, and a shaft ending in a costal cartilage.
About the rib 15 of the pig
Rib 15 is a bone of the body (trunk), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Costa XV. You can turn it above, see it in place in the body of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Measured on the specimen
What the rib 15 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.
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Rib 15
- Latin (NAV)
- Costa XV
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The rib 15 in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the rib 15
- What is the Latin name of the rib 15?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the rib 15 is called Costa XV.
- Where is the rib 15 of the pig?
- Rib 15 is a bone of the body (trunk), one on each side of the body.
See the rib 15 inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
