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costa

DEFINITIONS OF: costa

1

n a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

Type of:
anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing

n any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

Synonyms:
rib
Types:
true rib
one of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum
Type of:
bone, os
rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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