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a curved bone playing bodyguard to your most important organs.
means One of the curved bones that arc from your spine around your chest, forming a protective cage for your heart and lungs.
from From Old English 'ribb,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Rippe' and Dutch 'rib'), all likely springing from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning something like 'cover' or 'roof' — fitting, since ribs roof over your vital organs. The same root may be a cousin of words for arching and covering across the language family.
- count
- most humans carry twelve pairs, twenty-four total
- floating ribs
- bottom two attach to nothing in front
- flexible
- they bend and spring to let you breathe
- regrows
- removed rib bone can partially regenerate from the lining
- adam myth
- men and women have identical rib counts
adam's rib — biblical creation story where god forms woman from man's rib in genesis
spare ribs — cut of pork ribs, bbq staple in american cuisine since colonial times
beef short ribs — korean galbi, marinated beef ribs grilled as korean bbq dish