thoracic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonthoracic adjective
- postthoracic adjective
- prethoracic adjective
- subthoracal adjective
- subthoracic adjective
- transthoracic adjective
Etymology
Origin of thoracic
1650–60; < Medieval Latin thōrācicus < Greek thōrākikós. See thorac-, -ic
Example Sentences
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"He was critically ill. His heart stopped as soon as he arrived. We had to perform CPR," said lead author Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern University.
From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026
“The concept of screening is to find dangerous things before they do dangerous things,” said Dr. Daniel Boffa, chief of thoracic surgery at Yale.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024
It was almost ordinary, like watching a woman perform thoracic surgery, or change a tire, or drive a car.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024
“In your final days, you pushed to understand and raise awareness about the dilemma many girls face - thoracic endometriosis. You died educating and motivating me,” he wrote.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2024
How, for instance, does a wing-making master gene “know” to build a wing in the second thoracic segment, and not, say, the first or third segment?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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