Intercostal muscles are the muscles located between our ribs. They help us breathe by lifting and expanding the ribcage when we inhale, and by lowering and shrinking it when we exhale. Full definition
By bending sideways we alternately stretch and contract the lateral structures of the torso (obliques, QL, iliacus, TFL, IT band) and facilitate deeper breathing by stretching intercostal muscles and expanding the ribcage. (sequencewiz.org)
AChR was extracted from external intercostal muscle specimens of both affected puppies by a procedure modified from that of Lindstrom and Lambert [21]. (journals.plos.org)
This uses tiny muscles in between the ribs known as intercostal muscles. (destinationfittraining.ca)