Usually means: Muscles located between the ribs.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. intercostal: Merriam-Webster
  2. intercostal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intercostal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intercostal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intercostal: Vocabulary.com
  6. intercostal: Wordnik
  7. intercostal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intercostal: Wiktionary
  9. intercostal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intercostal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intercostal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intercostal: Dictionary.com
  13. Intercostal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. intercostal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. intercostal: Rhymezone
  16. Intercostal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. intercostal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. intercostal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. intercostal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. intercostal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. intercostal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intercostal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. intercostal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. intercostal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intercostal: A Word A Day

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (intercostal)

adjective:  (anatomy) Between the ribs of an animal or person.
adjective:  (nautical) Between the ribs of a boat.
noun:  (anatomy) The intercostal muscles.
noun:  (anatomy) Something that is between the ribs of an animal.
noun:  (nautical) Hull reinforcing inserted between frames or bulkheads of a boat.

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