thorax

[ UK /θˈɔːɹæks/ ]
[ US /ˈθɔɹæks/ ]
NOUN
  1. the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen
  2. part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
  3. the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
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How To Use thorax In A Sentence

  • Cervical vertebra coping, of the belt headache. Left prothorax aches, it is how to return a responsibility, what disease be? How to administer?
  • Sahn and Hefner recently reviewed the clinical condition of spontaneous pneumothorax.
  • He learned to recognize pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis, and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his stethoscope.
  • Not only did sanatoriums close, but also therapeutic mainstays like pneumothorax and pneumoperitoneum became obsolete, and surgical procedures such as thoracoplasty and the surgeons who did them disappeared.
  • Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Savage charged the creature, swinging his knife at the prothorax. MINUTES TO BURN
  • First, a pair of snapping legs, then the thorax, then the orb of the abdomen. MINUTES TO BURN
  • Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, says they make that sound by vibrating an organ on the side of their thorax called a tymbal. Cicadas Swarm Wide Portions of US
  • Patagium - ia: in Lepidoptera, those sclerites that cover the base of primaries: often used as synonymous with tegula and squamula, q.v.: assigned by some writers to the pro -, by others to the meso-thorax: homologized with the paraptera of meso-thorax. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • As the bird lands and decelerates the weight of the pectoralis and sternocoricoideus muscles causes the sternum to swing ventrally, increasing the volume of the thorax.
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