short elevator muscle of rib

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Any of the muscles that arise from the transverse processes of the last cervical vertebra and the eleven thoracic vertebrae and are inserted into the next rib below.

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Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
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Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.
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