Levatores breves costarum
Levatores breves costarum
- Latin synonym: Musculi levatores costarum breves
- Synonym: Levatores costarum breves muscles
- Related terms: Levatores costarum breves
Definition
The four lower Levatores costarum divides into two fasciculi:
- one of which is inserted into the outer surface of the rib immediately below the vertebra from which it takes origin, between the tubercle and the angle: Levatores costarum brevi
- the other passes down to the second rib below its origin: Levatores costarum longi.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
