intercostal muscle
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Definition
The respiratory muscles that arise from the lower border of one rib and insert into the upper border of the adjoining rib.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Action
- inspiration movement
- Innervation
- intercostal nerves
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
Practice questions
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Identifiers
- FMA
- 13354
- UBERON
- 0001111
- Wikidata
- Q3302518