thoracic cavity
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These are typically stopped in our thoracic cavity as they enter the lungs.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
The research team used CT scans of the subject's thoracic cavity and artificial intelligence to create three-dimensional models of the lung, including the airways, blood vessels, and the chosen target.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
“This area—this thoracic cavity region leading to the brain—is much less studied and identified among mammals and especially among marine mammals,” Kienle says.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
The thoracic cage encloses and protects the organs of the thoracic cavity, including the heart and lungs.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
That trunk swings posteriorly and leaves the thoracic cavity near the apex of the costal process, as shown in Fig.
From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Jenkinson, Marion Anne
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