"floating rib" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: floating ribs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} floating rib (plural floating ribs)
  1. Either of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage. Coordinate_terms: true rib Translations (Translations): costilla flotante [feminine] (Spanish)

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