1. thoracic - Noun
2. thoracic - Adjective
Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.
One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
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A musket bullet fired from the mizzentop of Redoutable struck Nelson in the left shoulder, passed through his spine at the sixth and seventh thoracic vertebrae, and lodged two inches below his right scapula in the muscles of his back. Source: Internet
Butterfly caterpillars have three pairs of true legs on the thoracic segments and up to six pairs of prolegs arising from the abdominal segments. Source: Internet
By the mysis stages, the pereiopods (thoracic appendages) start to be used instead of the antennae for locomotion. Source: Internet
Courtney A, Courtney M: Links between traumatic brain injury and ballistic pressure waves originating in the thoracic cavity and extremities. Source: Internet
Certainly in their morphology they are not jointed, and so lack the five segments (coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus) of thoracic insect legs. Source: Internet