Costal cartilage connects the ribs to the sternum.
Hyaline cartilage
hyaline
True ribs are connected to the sternum by fusion. These ribs called the true ribs include the first three rib bones.
Condochondritis is inflammation of the cartilage that connects ribs to the sternum.
nothing actually contains the sternum the sternum is the bone that connects the ribs together also helping to protect the ventral side of the ribs it also holds at the bottom the xyphoid process
The true ribs (pair 1-7) are connected to the sternum by way of the costal cartilages, a type called hyaline. Pair 8-10 are called floating ribs and they also attach to the sternum but use the same cartilage as 7.
The ribs are connected to the sternum through the costochondral junctions, fibrous connections between the cartilagenous tails of the ribs and the bone of the sternum.
True ribs, because 7-pairs of costal cartilages join 7-pairs of ribs DIRECTLY to the sternum. False ribs, because the costal cartilage join 3-pairs of ribs to the seventh-rib not the sternum. Floating ribs, because the last 2-pairs of ribs neither connects to a costal cartilage and the sternum.
I believe you are looking for the clavicle. It connects the sternum to the scapula.
Yes lots of it. The coastal cartillage connects the endots of the ribs to the sternum.
The only thing that connects the left and the right (1-10) is the sternum in the middle and the vertebrae in the back. 10-12 are only connected by the vertebrae between them.
The rectus abdominus is a long, straplike muscle that connects the pubic bones to the rib and sternum.
The ribs and sternum are best classified as the rib cage. Most of the ribs and sternum consist of bone.
4 ribs is connected to the sternum