The rib cage is an arrangement of bones in the thorax of animals. It is formed by the vertebral column, ribs and sternum and encloses the heart and lungs.
Rib Cage is a cage type arrangement of bones in the thorax of animals. The bent ribs join the chest bone and the backbone together to form the Rib Cage. Some important internal parts like heart and lungs of our body lie protected inside this cage.
Famous quotes containing the words rib and/or cage:
“Though shoulder, bosom, lip, and knee
Are praised in every kind of art,
Here is love’s true anatomy:
His rib is gone; he’ll have her heart.”
—John Hollander (b. 1929)
“Out of the cage came Eve,
escaping, escaping.
She was clothed in her skin like the sun
and her ankles were not for sale.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)