Use 'intercostal' to describe pain or sensation specifically between the ribs.

Pain Identification

Most common in medical or sports contexts, referencing rib-related issues.

Medical Context

'Intercostal' often refers to the muscles located between the ribs.

Muscle Connection

In botany, 'intercostal' specifies the exact area on a plant's leaf.

Botanical Specificity

It helps to identify structural features between the veins in botany.

Vein Identification

'Intercostal' areas can play a role in the photosynthesis process.

Photosynthetic Activity

 that psychologists and neuroscientists don't normally spend much time looking at, which is the ribcage, and it doesn't seem terribly exciting, but actually you're all using your ribcage all the time. What you're all doing at the moment with your ribcage, and don't stop doing it, is breathing. So you use the intercostal muscles, the muscles between your ribs, to bring air in and out of your lungs

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 As the body prepares to take in oxygen-rich air, this system sends a signal to the muscles around your lungs, flattening the diaphragm and contracting the intercostal muscles between your ribs to create more space for the lungs to expand. Air then wooshes into your nose and mouth, through your trachea,

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 scene there of the spinal column the cervical spinal column and now we moved to the black rotting flesh on the ribcage the intercostal muscles still

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