Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy and zoology: Situated below a rib; extending from one rib to a succeeding one; infracostal: specifically noting the muscles called subcostales.
  • Lying along the under side or edge of a rib: as, a subcostal groove for an artery.
  • Placed under or within the ribs or costal cartilages collectively; hypochondrial; subcartilaginous.
  • In entomology, situated near, but not at or on, the costa: specifically noting the subcostal.
  • noun In zoology and anatomy: A subcostal or infracostal muscle. See subcostalis.
  • noun A subcostal artery, vein, or nerve, running along the groove in the lower border of a rib; an intercostal.
  • noun In entomology, a subcostal vein or nervure; the subcosta.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat. & Zoöl.) Situated below the costas, or ribs.
  • noun (Anat.) A subcostal muscle.
  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Below a rib or the ribs
  • noun anatomy A subcostal muscle.
  • noun zoology One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

sub- +‎ costal

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word subcostal.

Examples

  • Effects from 2 to 12 Hz. Tolerance in this frequency range is usually limited by substernal or subcostal chest pain, with thresholds at approximately 1 to 2 Gz and 2 to 3 Gx. The etiology of the pain is the same for both axes of vibration: displacement of the abdominal and thoracic viscera induces stretching of the chest wall, with torsion at the costochondral junctions of the ribs.

    Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009

  • There is also general fatigue, nausea, and gastric weakness, swollen and dropsical abdomen, and pain and tightness under the right subcostal region right front ribs.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Median cell: in Lepidoptera, is the closed area formed by a line extending from the end of subcostal to the end of the median veins, = radial (Comst.): in Hymenoptera, 1st median (Pack.), = medial (Comst.);

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Marginal cell: in Diptera (Williston): = subcostal (Shiner): = radial

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Fore wings with eight wedge-shaped luteous streaks, of which three are near the base, two subcostal, two hindward, and one submarginal and transverse.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Head testaceous, face transverse; antennæ testaceous, third joint elongate-conical; arista bare; abdomen blackish blue, second segment very large, third and following not visible; legs testaceous; wings limpid, with four transverse pale brown subcostal streaks; discal transverse vein parted by less than half its length from the border, and by less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial; halteres testaceous.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Accessory subcostal vein: the vein given off from the subcosta and branching toward the apex of the wing in Perlidae.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Head reddish; antennæ testaceous at the base; thorax testaceous in front; wings greyish, blackish-brown along the costa, and with three subcostal blackish-brown patches, the third continued along the veins towards the hind border.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • It lies upon the diaphragm, the medial and lateral lumbocostal arches, the Psoas major, the Quadratus lumborum, and the tendon of the Transversus abdominis, the subcostal, and one or two of the upper lumbar arteries, and the last thoracic, iliohypogastric, and ilioinguinal nerves.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs 1918

  • The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects.

    II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax 1918

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.