rib 10

The tenth rib has only a single articular facet on its head. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the rib 10 is

The tenth rib has only a single articular facet on its head. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the rib 10 is

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the rib 10 connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. a kind of rib.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the rib 10. 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 costa X and tenth rib. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004609, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: rib.
• contains: facet of tenth rib, non-articular facet of tubercle of tenth rib and sternal end of tenth rib.

Questions

Where is the rib 10?

It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the rib 10 connect to?

A kind of: rib.

Is the rib 10 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.