What does rib cage mean?

rib cage means "the bony enclosing wall of the chest".

Is rib cage a common word?

rib cage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Rib cage — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the bony enclosing wall of the chest
Broaderskeletal structure
Part ofthorax axial skeleton

Questions about rib cage

What does rib cage mean?: rib cage means "the bony enclosing wall of the chest".
Is rib cage a common word?: rib cage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rib cage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. .

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