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thoracic

[ thaw-ras-ik, thoh- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the thorax.


thoracic

/ θɔːˈræsɪk /

adjective

  1. of, near, or relating to the thorax
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


thoracic

/ thə-răsĭk /

  1. Relating to or located in or near the thorax.


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Other Words From

  • nontho·racic adjective
  • posttho·racic adjective
  • pretho·racic adjective
  • sub·thora·cal adjective
  • subtho·racic adjective
  • transtho·racic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thoracic1

1650–60; < Medieval Latin thōrācicus < Greek thōrākikós. See thorac-, -ic
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Example Sentences

The scientists homed in on an area in the mid-back, just around thoracic segment 11 in the human spine.

Initially, what we knew about Issa’s spine came from lower thoracic vertebrae, lower lumbar vertebrae, and a partial pelvis.

That’s because he dealt with a stress fracture in his arm, a procedure for thoracic outlet syndrome and another to relocate a pinched nerve in his elbow.

For a double lung transplant, patients “will stay about three weeks in hospital if everything goes well,” says Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine.

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Back home, he became the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital.

As a result she's had severe nerve damage in her right arm that threatened her career as a cardio-thoracic surgeon.

The pupa, distinguished by a large thoracic region, breathes through a pair of tubes on the thorax.

It shows us three fairly bulky thoracic ganglia, arranged in the same manner as the legs.

The remainder of the thoracic surface is covered with a tough breast-plate which the sting would perhaps fail to perforate.

The Two-banded Scolia stings a little lower down, on the line of demarcation between the first two thoracic segments.

M. Latreille is of opinion, That the four wings or their representatives replace the four thoracic legs of the decapod Crustacea.

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