The respiratory muscles that arise from the lower border of one rib and insert into the upper border of the adjoining rib. [ MESH:A02.633.567.900.500 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0002280 ]
Synonyms: musculus intercostalis
Term information
- UMLS:C0021724 (ncithesaurus:Intercostal_Muscle)
- VHOG:0000903
- EFO:0001368
- Wikipedia:Intercostal_muscle
- EHDAA2:0000841
- GAID:159
- MA:0003165
- MESH:D007366
- SCTID:181746004
- MA:0002324
- FMA:13354
- BTO:0005281
- EMAPA:18521
- EHDAA:5988
- NCIT:C32824
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
Inspiration by active expansion of the thorax evolved later, in the ancestor of reptiles, birds, and mammals. This was powered originally by the intercostal muscles (as in lizards or crocodilians) and later (in mammals only) by a muscular diaphragm.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- muscle organ and located in some intercostal space and has muscle origin some rib and has muscle insertion some rib
- muscle organ
- chest organ
- part of some chest
- develops from some intercostal pre-muscle mass
- has muscle insertion some rib
- innervated_by some intercostal nerve
- has muscle origin some rib