Translations:Rippenwirbelgelenke und Thoraxbewegungen/4/en
Aus Dornheim Anatomy
The movement axes of the cranial ribs are frontal and those of the caudal rib are more sagittal to the rib neck (collum costae). A rib movement in the upper part of the thorax thus increases the sagittal diameter and in the lower part the transverse diameter.