rib
An intersegmental rod-shaped bone that forms in the peritoneal membrane and attach to the vertebral parapophyses. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the rib is
An intersegmental rod-shaped bone that forms in the peritoneal membrane and attach to the vertebral parapophyses. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the rib is
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the rib connects to
The atlas records 43 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of rib skeletal system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the rib. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as dorsal rib, pleural rib and ribs. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002228, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: rib skeletal system.
- A kind of: endochondral bone and skeletal element.
- Connected to: sternum.
- Adjacent to: intercostal space.
- subtype: false rib, rib 1, rib 10, rib 11, rib 12 and rib 2, and 8 more.
- inserts into: abdominal internal oblique muscle, iliocostalis muscle, innermost intercostal muscle, intercostal muscle, levator costarum and quadratus lumborum, and 4 more.
- originates from: abdominal external oblique muscle, innermost intercostal muscle, intercostal muscle, pectoralis minor, serratus ventralis and subcostal muscle.
- contains: body of rib, costal arch, costal cartilage, head of rib, neck of rib and tubercle of rib.
Questions
Where is the rib?
It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the rib connect to?
Part of: rib skeletal system.
Is the rib the same in other species?
Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.