Usually means: Two lower ribs, not attached.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating rib: Merriam-Webster
  2. floating rib: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floating rib: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. floating rib: Collins English Dictionary
  5. floating rib: Wiktionary
  6. floating rib: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. floating rib: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. floating rib: Dictionary.com
  9. Floating rib: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. floating rib: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floating rib: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating rib: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Floating rib, Rib, floating: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. floating rib: Medical dictionary
  4. Floating rib, Rib, floating: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (floating rib)

noun:  Either of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage.

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