It is more common on the left side and mostly in the nerves situated from the fifth to the ninth intercostal space.
A neuralgia of one or more of the intercostal nerves.
With pain in all movements of the chest, resembling intercostal neuralgia or pleurisy.
The pain is usually very severe, especially on movement of the intercostal (between the ribs) muscles.
There may be pain or dragging sensation in the loins, or intercostal neuralgia; hysteria, nervousness, nervous dyspepsia and constipation are common.
Tenderness of the anterior lower left intercostal muscles below the heart (third day).
The spinal marrow is, first of all therefore, the coalescence of the twointercostal nerves.
The spinal marrow is the content of the bones and muscles, like the intercostal nerves or the visceral cord are the contents of the abdominal cavity, and as the blood is that of the internal and fibrous coat of the arteries.
The spinal cord is worth as much as all the visceral nerves taken together; it is the felted system of intercostal nerves; and is, properly speaking, none other than the posterior double cord of ganglia.
As the intercostal ganglia give off plexus-forming ramules; so does the spinal marrow; there are the spinal nerves.
The main ventral trunk bifurcates into two branches, one of which passes onto the inner face of the sternum, and one of which supplies the posterior two intercostal spaces.
In the more posterior intercostal spaces these muscles are poorly developed, but they become progressively better developed anteriorly, and are fully represented in the most anterior intercostal spaces.
As a result of these observations, numerical values can be assigned to the site of attachment of the intercostal or thoracic artery, and these values may come to be used as an index in specific levels of evolution.
These muscles resemble the external intercostal muscles, but extend anteroventrally, with the muscles being most fully developed posteriorly, and progressively less so anteriorly.
As the intercostal arteries pass outwards, traversing the intercostal spaces with their accompanying nerves, they diminish in size.
The descending thoracic part of the aorta, giving off b b, the intercostal arteries.
The intercostal artery is sometimes wounded by the fractured end of the rib, in which case, if the pleura be lacerated, an effusion of blood takes place within the thorax, compresses the lung, and obstructs respiration.
The intercostal arteries occasionally, when wounded, call for the aid of the surgeon; these arteries, like all other branches of the aorta, are largest at their origin.
When fluid is effused into the pleural cavity, the ribs are not moved by the intercostal muscles opposite the place occupied by the fluid, for this has separated the lung from the ribs.
As the ribs jut symmetrically from either side of the vertebral column, so do the intercostal arteries follow them from their own points of origin in the aorta.
So true is it that all the costal region (the asternal as well as the sternal) is a pulmonary enclosure, that any instrument which pierces intercostal space must wound the lung.
The intercostalartery at K is not of any considerable size.
If the body be transfixed through any one of the intercostal spaces, the instrument will surely wound some part of the lung.
In addition to this muscular action, the upper ribs are also lifted and forced outward by the intercostal muscles, which increases the capacity of the upper chest to its fullest extent.
The ribs are moved in respiration by two superficial muscular layers, known as the intercostal muscles.
Injury of the intercostal arteries, and of the mammary and its branches, is attended with serious bleeding.
A cautious opening is then made through the intercostal muscles, and the pleura punctured.
An incision is made through the integuments, over the upper edge of the sixth rib, an inch and a half in extent; in this situation there is no risk of wounding the intercostal artery.
When enlarged glands are perceptible above the clavicle, or in the intercostal spaces, the practitioner who would advise interference with the original tumour must be grossly ignorant, or very unprincipled.
In neglected cases, absorption of the intercostalsubstance takes place; the integuments bulge outwards, and distinct fluctuation is perceived.
In a case reported by Westphalen[109] all the bile secreted by the patient came out by an opening in the fifth intercostal space.
Adhesions may form between the peritoneum near the ulcer and the liver, gall-bladder, or pancreas, or an opening may take place posteriorly in the right seventh intercostal space or into the peritoneal cavity.
Gastralgia may also be confounded with rheumatism of the abdominal muscles as well as neuralgia of the inferior intercostal nerves, and it is liable to be confounded with colic resulting from biliary calculi.
In some instances the right hypochondrium is bulged out, the intercostal spaces widened, and the side appears to be or is actually elevated, and occasionally enlarged veins form, as in cases of the obstructed portal circulation of cirrhosis.
From periostitis of a rib pleurodynia may be known by the fact that in the one the tenderness is marked in the intercostal space, and in the other in the rib itself.
Dorso-intercostal neuralgia is an affection of certain of the dorsal nerves.
He used to have not only facial, but intercostal neuralgia; for this last he was repeatedly bled, under the idea that it was pleurisy.
In the case of the seventh, eighth and ninth intercostal nerves, which are those most liable to intercostal neuralgia, the superficial branch is given off about midway between the spine and the sternum.
Vain attempts had been made for several consecutive days to suckle the infant from the chapped breast; when suddenly the most severe dorso-intercostal neuralgia set in.
The latter sends filaments which pierce the muscles to be distributed to the skin of the back; the former, which are the intercostal nerves, follow the intercostal spaces.
As an illustration of the herpetic variety of dorso-intercostal neuralgia, running a severe but not protracted course, I may relate the case of a medical man whom I formerly attended.
Proceeding outward, they at first lie between two layers of intercostal muscles, and, after giving off branches to the latter, give off their large superficial branch.
Hysteric" tenderness also sometimes bears a considerable resemblance, superficially, to trueintercostal neuralgia, in cases where the genuine disease does not exist.
There is some reason to believe that cardiac neuralgia is occasionally produced in a reflex manner in consequence of a severe existing intercostal neuralgia.
In the chest we may occasionally meet with wounds of the intercostal or internal mammary vessels or the vena azygos veins.
Sensation is lost below the second intercostal space.
The intercostalmuscles below the seat of the lesion and the abdominal muscles are paralysed.
Scoliosis showing rotation of bodies of vertebræ, and widening of intercostal spaces on side of convexity.
These incisions are joined by a horizontal cut made in the fourth intercostal space.
An incision eight inches long was made over the 4th rib, six inches of the rib were resected, the bleeding intercostal artery was ligated, the blood was turned out of the pericardial cavity, this cavity being irrigated with hot water.
There is intermittent fever, headache, backache, and shooting pains in the limbs and intercostal spaces, like those of dengue, with nocturnal exacerbations.
Marks reports the case of a stab-wound penetrating the left 9th intercostal space, the diaphragm, pleura, pericardium, and apex of the heart.
Recently, Dalton records a remarkable case of stab-wound of the pericardium with division of the intercostal artery, upon which he operated.
The murmur caused by this lesion is a systolic one, either accentuated in the second intercostal space at the right of the sternum, or perhaps heard loudest just to the left of the sternum in this region.
Intercostal neuralgia is more likely to occur on the left side of the chest than on the right.
The point of puncture for aspiration most frequently chosen is in the fourth or fifth intercostal space, about an inch to the left of the sternal margin.
A distinctive murmur of this insufficiency would be diastolic and accentuated in the second intercostal space on the left of the sternum.
Besides the feeling of constriction, even to some spasm, perhaps, of the intercostal muscles, respiration is slowed or very shallow, because of the reflex desire of the patient not to add to the pain by breathing.
The remaining portion of the serratus anterior muscle was then approximated across the closure of the intercostal muscles.
The intercostal muscle bundle above the fifth rib and below the fifth rib were surprisingly spared from injury by the shattering of the rib, which again establishes the trajectory of the bullet.
It is not confined to this course, but extends to the neck, and, passing through the foramina intervertebralia, fills the intercostal spaces exterior to the pleura.
Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.
The intercostal muscles, which form two thin layers between the ribs, known as the internal and the external intercostal muscles.
The front upright corresponds to the breastbone, the back one to the spinal column, the connecting strips to the ribs, and the threads to the intercostal muscles.
The contraction of the external intercostal muscles raises the ribs, and the contraction of the internal intercostals tends to lower them.
And you hope to be seized with the dance of St. Vitus if you found on the plaintiff intercostal neuritis?
She claimed that she had sustained injuries to her ribs, lungs, and chest, and that she was suffering from resultant pleurisy and intercostal neuritis.
To illustrate the action of the intercostal muscles (see sec.
The ribs are not horizontal, but slope downwards from the backbone, so that when raised or depressed by the strong intercostal muscles, the size of the chest is alternately increased or diminished.
The elastic band F G represents the external intercostal muscles, and E H, the internal intercostals.
The action of the intercostal muscles is not at first easy to understand; but it will be readily comprehended by reference to a model such as that represented in Fig.
The spaces between the ribs are occupied by the intercostal muscles, while large muscles clothe the entire chest.
Thus, lesions of the mitral valve give rise to murmurs which are heard at the apex beat of the heart, and lesions of the aortic valves to murmurs which are heard over the aortic area, in the second right intercostal space.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercostal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
