intercostals

In order of importance, they are: your diaphragm, the primary mover, a mushroom-shaped dome at the base of your ribs your intercostals (external and internal), which connect your ribs your sternocleidomastoid, at the front of your neck, and your scalenes, at the sides of your neck

Erica Heinz: How To Cure The Hiccups! 2009

Her lungs/diaphragm/intercostals the muscles alongside the ribs would be weighted down too much.

Waxing, the perfect mons, blue extremities versus moisturizer Elizabeth McClung 2008

I suspect the pain in my intercostals and accompanying stuffiness/cough may be due to fluctuating temperatures, but it's still preventing me from going on the bike and trying to get in better shape, which of course perpetuates the vicious cycle pun unintended.

Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

Danni decided his chest was even more amazing than she'd remembered-well-defined pectorals tapering down into hard ridges of the intercostals, small dark nipples, that perfect pattern of hair, and so tanned-or was that his natural skin color?

The Pull of the Moon Graham, Darlene 1999

When it ended, my mouth tasted of bile and my intercostals and abdominals ached from the strain.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

When it ended, my mouth tasted of bile and my intercostals and abdominals ached from the strain.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

When it ended, my mouth tasted of bile and my intercostals and abdominals ached from the strain.

206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

The contraction of the external intercostal muscles raises the ribs, and the contraction of the internal intercostals tends to lower them.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

The external intercostals are attached between the outer lower margin of the rib above and the outer upper margin of the rib below, and extend obliquely downward and forward.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

The internal intercostals are attached between the inner margins of adjacent ribs, and they extend obliquely downward and backward from the front.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters