THORAX
\θˈɔːɹaks], \θˈɔːɹaks], \θ_ˈɔː_ɹ_a_k_s]\
Definitions of THORAX
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
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the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen
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part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
By Princeton University
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the part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
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the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen
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part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
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The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
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The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
By Oddity Software
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The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
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The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
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The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
By Noah Webster.
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The upper part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen. It contains the chief organs of the circulatory and respiratory systems. (From Stedman, 25th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In the human body, the chest, containing the heart, lungs, etc.; in insects, the middle of the three main sections of the body.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Thoracic.
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The chest, the upper part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen; it is formed by the twelve dorsal vertebrae, the twelve pairs of ribs, the sternum, and the muscles and fasciae attached to these; below it is separated from the abdomen by the diaphragm; it contains the chief organs of the circulatory and respiratory systems, as distinguished from the abdomen which encloses those of the digestive apparatus.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Thoracic.
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The part of the body between the neck and the adbomen.
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The middle region of the body of an insect.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That part of the human skeleton which consists of the bones of the chest; the cavity of the chest; that part of the body between the head and the abdomen; a breastplate, cuirass, or corselet.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In anat., the chest; that part of the body situated between the neck and the abdomen, contatining the heart, lungs, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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In higher vertebrates, that part of the body between neck and abdomen containing heart, lungs, etc. ; the body region behind the head of many Arthropods and of other smaller animals.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The cavity bounded by the diaphragm below, the ribs and sternum in front, the ribs laterally and the ribs and vertebral column behind, being closed above by the structures at the root of the neck. It contains the heart and lungs and the vessels connected with them, the esophagus, the sympathetic and the pneumogastric nerves and their ganglia and plexuses, and a portion of the thoracic duct. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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