When the Bottom Ribs Aren't Attached to the Breastbone Medically reviewed by Jane Kim, MD Floating rib injuries are caused, ...

Each rib is made up of a few different components: the head, the neck, the tubercle, the angle, and the body. Inflammation of the cartilage (called costochondritis) that connects the ribs to the ...

the scalene tubercle, for the attachment of the scalenus medius muscle. Anterior to the scalene muscles, the first rib serves as an attachment for the first digitation of the serratus anterior, the ...

the costal cartilage of the first rib, degenerative parameters of clavicle joints, certain abnormalities of the clavicle (conoid tubercle and the floor of the fourth ventricle) and cortical ...