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UK
/θˈɔːɹæks/
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[ US /ˈθɔɹæks/ ]
[ US /ˈθɔɹæks/ ]
NOUN
- the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen
- part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
- the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
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.