The ribs allow chest expansion for breathing ... YOU HAVE THREE TYPES OF RIBS. The human skeleton has 12 pairs of ribs.

The bones in your skeleton help you stay standing up and let you move around. They also protect the important organs inside you. Your ribs keep your ... You have a chest and a tummy.

Surgeons have come up with a plan to use her ribs to form a protective cage inside her chest. Consultant paediatric surgeon Nitin Patwardhan was one of the 50-strong medical team at Vanellope's ...