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We are struck by the insight that the pleurmalion relates to the lost prism as the biblical rib to a woman, bringing it (her) into view and thus to hand.
A muscle strip approximately 7.5 mm in width, including central tendon and rib attachments, was dissected out under magnification; care was taken to cut parallel to the muscle fibers.
To examine this function in more detail, we employed a culture system that facilitates chondrocyte maturation and cartilage formation, and closely recapitulates the in vivo situation [ 11 ] . The micromass system has been used extensively for studies of cartilage formation from limb mesenchyme [ 10 11 12 13 ] and also for culture of chondrocytes in high density [ 14 ] . Here, we have adapted the system to neonatal mouse rib chondrocytes, to study the role of Hoxc-8 in chondrocyte maturation.
The structural rigidity of rib cartilage is greatly compromised, fatally interfering with pulmonary function, and vertebral cartilage is so weak that the skeleton often disassembles during skeletal preparation [ 1 ] . These results suggest that Hoxc-8 continues to regulate skeletal development well beyond pattern formation in a tissue-specific manner, presumably by controlling the progression of cells along the chondrocyte differentiation pathway.
29 (I recognize that one reading of the biblical text, widely accepted in various religious traditions, holds that God did create a male Adam in his own image and later removed a rib to create Eve.)