MEANING
Located between the ribs.
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- intercostal muscle
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The injury strained an intercostal muscle.
Pain followed the intercostal space.
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- intercostal
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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