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the cage that guards your heart while letting you breathe a billion times.
means The curved bones forming the protective cage around your chest, or the cut of meat (often from pork or beef) that comes from those same bones in an animal.
from From Old English "ribb," a word with deep Germanic roots — cousins survive in German "Rippe" and Dutch "rib." These all likely trace back to a Proto-Germanic source meaning "rib" or "vault," and possibly further to a Proto-Indo-European root tied to the idea of covering or roofing — fitting, since ribs form a kind of vaulted ceiling over the lungs. The architectural sense lingers in English too: the curved "ribs" of a ship's hull or a vaulted cathedral ceiling borrow the same name from the bones they resemble.
- floating pair
- Bottom two ribs attach to nothing in front.
- rib count
- Most humans have twelve pairs, some grow extras.
- self-healing
- Cracked ribs fix themselves with no cast possible.
- smallest needed
- You can lose ribs and survive just fine.
- breath machine
- They flex outward roughly 20,000 times daily.
adam's ribs — biblical creation story where god formed woman from adam's rib
kansas city ribs — thick-cut beef or pork ribs smoked in kansas city barbecue tradition