472 PRACTICAL ANATOMY. 



Subdivisions. Vertebral transverse process and tubercle of a rib. 

 Basis. A capsule lined by synovial membrane. 

 Accessory Ligaments. Middle, superior, posterior, costotransverse. 

 Locate the middle costotransverse ligament. 





FOR FIRST RIB 



An interarticular 

 ligament 



SECOND RIB 



The plate of flbro- 

 cartilage between 

 manubrium and 

 meso -sternum 



SEVENTH RIB 



Interohondral 

 capaular ligament 



Fic. 347. '1'iiK STERNUM. 

 (Left side, showing ligaments; right side, the synovial cavities.) 



It is between the back of the neck ot the rib and the front of the transverse 

 process. It is called the costotransverse interosseous ligament. 

 Locate tlie posterior costotransverse ligament. 



It extends from the non-articular part of the tubercle of the rib to the tip of 



the trunsvrrsr prore^. 



Locate ///( superior costotran.^'ersc ligament. 



