true rib

When the piece is large, as of the South-Down or Cheviot, the gristly parts of the ribs may be divided from the true ribs, and helped separately.

They have sometimes prominences on the fruit and around the eye, but never true ribs.

In man, as a rule, there are but twelve vertebræ which develop true ribs.

The seven upper ribs are united to the sternum, through the medium of cartilages, and are called the true ribs.

In the highest forms of the Primates, the number of true ribs is seven, but in Hylobates there are sometimes eight pairs.