thorax

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Recent Examples of thorax The text stops mid-sentence in case 48 at the arms and upper thorax. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025 Strut that runway with your arms and legs poking out of your thorax and looking sooo long! Julie Sharbutt, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025 Some of these can lead to accumulation of fluid in the thorax or chest cavity. Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024 Insects have three body segments (head, thorax, and abdomen) and six legs (three pairs), while spiders have two body segments (cephalothorax and abdomen) and eight legs (four pairs). Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for thorax
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Noun
  • Environmental conditions may have shifted at some point in time, making abdomens less advantageous.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • The young receiver has been dealing with an abdomen injury that led to him being placed on IR.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Symptoms include diarrhea, upset stomach, fever and chills and flu-like symptoms.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • At one point, one of the girls is seen touching up the Houston rapper’s fresh tiger ink on his stomach.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025

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“Thorax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thorax. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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