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intercostal muscle
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001111
The respiratory muscles that arise from the lower border of one rib and insert into the upper border of the adjoining rib. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/A02.633.567.900.500 ]
Term info
Label
intercostal muscle
Synonyms
- musculus intercostalis
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Gray411.png
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
rib muscle, respiratory muscle, intercostales
homology notes
Inspiration by active expansion of the thorax evolved later, in the ancestor of reptiles, birds, and mammals. This was powered originally by the intercostal muscles (as in lizards or crocodilians) and later (in mammals only) by a muscular diaphragm.[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0001111
Term relations
Subclass of:
- anatomical structure
- part of some chest
- part of some thoracic segment of trunk
- part of some musculature
- part of some anatomical system
- part of some trunk