thorax

Examples

• All

• The doctor examined the patient's thorax for any signs of injury.

• Subcutaneous emphysema was present in the whole thorax and extended to the upper abdomen and the mediastinum.

  Academic text (2007)

• You exercise the arms and the thorax.

  Antz (1998)

• Doctor, it looks like a bullet in the lower thorax.

  Bean (1997)

• And similar wounds are found on the left upper thorax.

  Bullitt (1968)

• And once the muscles of the thorax become affected... breathing becomes impossible... leading to a very nasty death within 12 hours.

  Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

• You get migration of cells all the way down into the thorax and abdomen.

• Findings on radiography of the thorax and routine laboratory tests were normal.

  Academic text (2005)

• Contusions and abrasions of the thorax.

  Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

• The anatomic spread of infection from the craniocervical region to the thorax is well described.

  Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

C

chest

vsthorax

∞ 1.0

The front part of the body between the neck and stomach that holds the heart and lungs

is the whole region between neck and diaphragm rather than only the front

P

pectus

vsthorax

• Specialized

1 9.9

The part of the body between the neck and the stomach that holds the heart and lungs

is the general anatomical term used beyond technical zoology

Surface Forms

Etymology