intercostal muscle
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 ]
Term info
intercostal muscle
- musculus intercostalis
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Gray411.png
uberon
rib muscle, respiratory muscle, intercostales
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]
UBERON:0001111
Term relations
- muscle organ and located_in some intercostal space and has_muscle_origin some rib and has_muscle_insertion some rib
- muscle organ
- chest organ
- has_muscle_origin some rib
- located_in some intercostal space
- has_muscle_insertion some rib
- innervated_by some intercostal nerve
- develops_from some intercostal pre-muscle mass