Your rib cage consists of 12 paired bones ... The lower 11th and 12th pairs are usually referred to as “floating ribs.”. Because your 8th, 9th, and 10th ribs aren’t directly connected ...

Doctors call the last two pairs “floating ribs,” because unlike most of the upper ribs ... Before operating, they order a CT scan with a three-dimensional reconstruction of the rib cage to review the ...