thoracic
of or relating to the thorax.
Origin of thoracic
1- Also tho·ra·cal [thawr-uh-kuhl, thohr-]. /ˈθɔr ə kəl, ˈθoʊr-/.
Other words from thoracic
- 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
Words Nearby thoracic
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How to use thoracic in a sentence
The scientists homed in on an area in the mid-back, just around thoracic segment 11 in the human spine.
Spinal stimulation gives some people with paralysis more freedom | Laura Sanders | August 3, 2022 | Science NewsInitially, what we knew about Issa’s spine came from lower thoracic vertebrae, lower lumbar vertebrae, and a partial pelvis.
Human ancestors had backbones that supported effortless walking and climbing | Scott A. Williams/The Conversation | December 6, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThat’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.
After big moves at trade deadline, Nationals’ waiver claims show a shift in their thinking | Jesse Dougherty | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostFor 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.
Demand for Covid-19 lung transplants is about to shoot up | Katherine Ellen Foley | October 16, 2020 | QuartzBack home, he became the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital.
The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life | Michael Daly | January 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterIt shows us three fairly bulky thoracic ganglia, arranged in the same manner as the legs.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThe remainder of the thoracic surface is covered with a tough breast-plate which the sting would perhaps fail to perforate.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThe Two-banded Scolia stings a little lower down, on the line of demarcation between the first two thoracic segments.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreM. Latreille is of opinion, That the four wings or their representatives replace the four thoracic legs of the decapod Crustacea.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William Kirby
British Dictionary definitions for thoracic
/ (θɔːˈræsɪk) /
of, near, or relating to the thorax
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Scientific definitions for thoracic
[ thə-răs′ĭk ]
Relating to or located in or near the thorax.
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