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... > Musculoskeletal System > Muscles > Muscle, Striated > Muscle, Skeletal > Respiratory Muscles > Intercostal Muscles
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Intercostal Muscles  

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Note

  • /growth: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; /embryol: coord with MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT if pertinent

Scope note

  • Respiratory muscles that arise from the lower border of one rib and insert into the upper border of the adjoining rib, and contract during inspiration or respiration. (From Stedman, 25th ed)

In other languages

  • kylkivälilihakset

    Finnish

  • interkostaalilihakset
  • interkostaalilihas
  • kylkivälilihas
  • m. intercostalis
  • mm. intercostales
  • musculi intercostales
  • musculus intercostalis
  • Interkostalmuskler

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007366

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