thoracic

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, suffering in the chest, of the thorax), from θώραξ (thṓrax, thorax).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θəˈɹæsɪk/
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  • Rhymes: -æsɪk

Adjective

thoracic (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Of the thorax.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 106:
      Those wings were powered by massive thoracic muscles—muscles no longer needed by a flightless queen.

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Translations

Noun

thoracic (plural thoracics)

  1. (zoology) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.

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Noun

thoracic (uncountable)

  1. thoracic (of the thorax)