thoracic

English

Alternative forms

• thoracick (obsolete)

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.

Derived terms

• abdominothoracic
• cardiothoracic
• caudothoracic
• cephalothoracic
• cervicothoracic
• craniothoracic
• extrathoracic
• interthoracic
• intrathoracic
• mesothoracic
• metathoracic
• midthoracic
• nonthoracic
• perithoracic
• scapulothoracic
• spondylothoracic
• subthoracic
• thoracically
• thoracic cage
• thoracic cavity
• thoracic duct
• thoracic ganglion
• thoracic outlet syndrome
• thoracic vertebra
• thoracic wall
• transthoracic

 

Related terms

• thorax

Translations

of the thorax

• Asturian: torácicu (ast)
• Catalan: toràcic (ca)
• Czech: hrudní (cs)
• Esperanto: toraka
• Finnish: rintakehä-
• French: thoracique (fr)
• Galician: torácico (gl)
• German: thorakal (de)
• Greek: θωρακικός (el) (thorakikós)
• Hungarian: mellkasi (hu)
• Ido: torakala (io)
• Irish: tóracsach
• Italian: toracico (it)
• Occitan: toracic
• Polish: piersiowy (pl)
• Portuguese: torácico (pt)
• Romanian: toracic (ro), toracal
• Russian: грудно́й (ru) (grudnój), торака́льный (ru) (torakálʹnyj)
• Spanish: torácico (es)
• Vietnamese: ngực (vi)
• Volapük: blötakevik

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.

Anagrams

• trochaic

Interlingua

Noun

thoracic (uncountable)

1. thoracic (of the thorax)