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rib cage

肋骨,肋骨架,肋骨骨架,肋脊

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Anatomy.

    • : the enclosure formed by the ribs and their connecting bones.

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Examples

  • That, along with flexible rib cages, helps those mammals’ lungs collapse as water pressure increases.

  • Justin Fields fell to the turf, pain pulsating through his body after the helmet of a defender smashed into his rib cage.

  • Veselka layered its latke with pork goulash, and Toloache added beef short rib chorizo.

  • Maybe I could turn all these quarters into some kind of rib-sticking casserole.

  • But you wonder how even the sane keep from losing their minds when you step into a cell—or rather a cage—at Graterford.

  • It is empty, the door swung open—perhaps the bird has already flown, or perhaps the cage awaits its next inhabitant.

  • In fact, in 2000 a 9.0-rated Action Comics No.1 owned by Nicolas Cage was stolen from his house.

  • So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

  • The 'cage' was simply an arrangement for 'straiter custody,' though but rarely judged necessary in the case of ladies.

  • Across the middle of the cage a stout barricade has been erected, and behind the barricade sits the Master, pale but defiant.

  • Benny gave them no peace at all until they had admired his wonderful new stockings, and felt of each rib.

  • A long, portable cage had been put together on the stage during the intermission, and within it the ten pacing beasts.