{"id":8242,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intercostal_muscles\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:34","slug":"intercostal_muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intercostal_muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercostal muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>External and internal muscles between the ribs essential to breathing (see figure below). &nbsp;Preterm infants have difficulties in coordinating these muscles during breathing such that the diaphragm moves out on inspiration and in on expiration (so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com\/paradoxical\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com\/paradoxical&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paradoxical breathing<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image067-intercostal-musclesx.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Action of the intercostal muscles during inspiration and expiration. A:&nbsp;Ribs, B:&nbsp;Sternum, C:&nbsp;External intercostal muscles, D:&nbsp;Internal intercostal muscles, E:&nbsp;Diaphragm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"fetal_breathing_movements\">Fetal breathing movements<\/a>, Preterm infant<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External and internal muscles between the ribs essential to breathing (see figure below). &nbsp;Preterm infants have difficulties in coordinating these muscles during breathing such that the diaphragm moves out on inspiration and in on expiration (so-called paradoxical breathing). Action of the intercostal muscles during inspiration and expiration. A:&nbsp;Ribs, B:&nbsp;Sternum, C:&nbsp;External intercostal muscles, D:&nbsp;Internal intercostal muscles, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intercostal_muscles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intercostal muscles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}