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first seven pairs connect directly with, the sternum and are therefore 

 called sternal or true ribs while the five remaining pairs are distinguished 



PHALANGES . 



-METACARPALS. 

 CARPALS. 



PHALANGES 



TARSALS. 



METATARSALS. 



Pj(, j68 —Human skeleton viewed from behind. (Reproduced in modified form 

 from "The Human Body" by Dr. Logan Clendening, (Copyright 1927, I930 by Alfred 

 A. Knopf, Inc.) by permission of and special arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, inc., 

 authorized publishers.) 



as false ribs. The last two pairs, the eleventh and twelfth, do not connect 

 with others, and are known as floating ribs. Each rib has a head or 

 capitulum, which articulates with the vertebral centrum, and a tuber- 



