The lungs are situated in the thoracic cage.
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Thoracic
//θəˈɹæsɪk//
Synonyms for "thoracic" (3 found)
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1 entriesderived
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
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5 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θωρᾱκικός adj (of the thorax)
Asturian
1 entries- torácicu adj (of the thorax)
Catalan
1 entries- toràcic adj (of the thorax)
Czech
1 entries- hrudní adj (of the thorax)
Esperanto
1 entries- toraka adj (of the thorax)
Finnish
1 entries- rintakehä adj (of the thorax)
French
1 entries- thoracique adj (of the thorax)
Galician
1 entries- torácico adj (of the thorax)
German
1 entries- thorakal adj (of the thorax)
Greek
1 entries- θωρακικός adj (of the thorax)
Hungarian
1 entries- mellkasi adj (of the thorax)
Ido
1 entries- torakala adj (of the thorax)
Irish
1 entries- tóracsach adj (of the thorax)
Italian
1 entries- toracico adj (of the thorax)
Latin
1 entries- thōrācicus adj (of the thorax)
Occitan
1 entries- toracic adj (of the thorax)
Polish
1 entries- piersiowy adj (of the thorax)
Portuguese
1 entries- torácico adj (of the thorax)
Romanian
2 entries- toracal adj (of the thorax)
- toracic adj (of the thorax)
Russian
2 entries- грудно́й adj (of the thorax)
- торака́льный adj (of the thorax)
Spanish
1 entries- torácico adj (of the thorax)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngực adj (of the thorax)
Volapük
1 entries- blötakevik adj (of the thorax)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
"What I saw in his lungs is nothing that I've ever seen before, and I've been doing lung transplants for 20 years," said Hassan Nemeh, M.D., surgical director of the Thoracic Organ Transplant System at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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But after the first or the second moult, definite wing-rudiments are visible in the form of outgrowths on the corners of the second and third thoracic segments.
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I immediately recognized two of the men who worked with me in thoracic surgery, Dr. James Duke and Dr. James Boland, Dr. Giesecke, who is an anesthesiologist, was also there along with a Dr. David Mebane who is an instructor in general surgery.
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