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TRUE RIB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the first seven ribs in a human being which attach to the sternum
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Hypernyms ("true rib" is a kind of...):
costa; rib (any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates))