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Body of rib 1
Other Terms: Shaft of rib, Rib body, Corpus costae
Description
The body forms a crescentic arch and is flattened in the horizontal plane. This forms the largest portion of the bone comprising approximately two-thirds of its length.
Etymology
The term body or its Latin equivalent corpus refers to the large central portion of a structure.
Latin
Corpus costae
