The cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart.
The enclosed area created by and within the ribs.
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Examples for "thorax"
Examples for "thorax"
1The head and the fore part of the thorax had already disappeared.
2In the acoustic sense, the thorax is not a cavity at all.
3This is a picture of the head and thorax of the grasshopper.
4The level of the tea in our bodies had reached the thorax.
5The thorax is never sufficiently compressed to drive out all the air.
1I stepped close to the body and peered into the thoracic cavity.
2Additionally, the physical constraints of the thoracic cavity often hinder direct SPF repair.
3Extended tolerance of foreign bodies loose in the thoracic cavity has been noticed.
4The CDH progresses through continuous growth of the liver into the thoracic cavity.
5The thoracic cavity was cleared of infected material by videothoracoscopy and bacteriological samples were taken.
1Xavier's chest cavity had been split open and his vital organs removed.
2I'd lost her forever, broken and abandoned in some xith'cal's chest cavity.
3She had tiny tumours on her liver, stomach, abdomen and chest cavity.
4I looked into his chest cavity and saw organs melting in blue flame.
5Neb heard a high-pitched whine from deep inside Isaak's chest cavity.
6Lex's hands started shaking as her chest cavity became a furnace.
7Torn sheets of Kevlar parted, and I could see inside his chest cavity.
8She's pumping air into her chest cavity, she's collapsing her lungs.
9She removed over a litre of blood from his chest cavity.
10The chest cavity is thus enlarged from side to side and from behind forwards.
11The cough went on and on, like a paper-shredder working in his chest cavity.
12The bony shield was lifted to reveal the chest cavity.
13In silence, Charles spun the cipher into the lock and opened Isaak's chest cavity.
14The serous membrane enveloping the lung and lining the inner surface of the chest cavity.
15I think they're up in my chest cavity somewhere.
16The diaphragm is the large muscle which divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
Translations for chest cavity