Crossword clues for thoracic
thoracic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thoracic \Tho*rac"ic\, a. [Cf. F. thoracique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.
Thoracic duct (Anat.), the great trunk of the lymphatic vessels, situated on the ventral side of the vertebral column in the thorax and abdomen. See Illust. of Lacteal.
Thoracic \Tho*rac"ic\, n. [Cf. F. thoracique.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of the thorax. n. (context zoology English) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the chest or thorax; "pectoral organ" [syn: pectoral]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "thoracic".
Then the chyle, conveyed through the thoracic duct from its cistern in the mesentery, is carried to the vena cava, and so to the heart.
In each organ separation and purification of the blood are effected and removal of the heterogeneous, not to mention how the heart sends its blood up to the brain after purification in the lungs, which is done by the arteries called carotids, and how the brain returns the blood, now vivified, to the vena cava just above where the thoracic duct brings in the chyle, and so back again to the heart.
A case of this kind was seen in 1895 at the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Philadelphia, in which the chyluria was due to a communication between the bladder and the thoracic duct.
The little thoracic movements make his dextral regions make him want to bite the side of his hand in pain.
In 1891 Eyer reported a case of rupture of the thoracic duct, causing death on the thirty-eighth day.
The mechanism of this rare and fatal form of injury has been very aptly described by Gosselin as due to a sudden pressure exerted on the thoracic wall at the moment of full inspiration, there being a spasm of the glottis or obstruction of the larynx, in consequence of which the lung bursts.
The theory of Gosselin would not explain these cardiac ruptures from external violence on the thoracic walls, and, therefore, was rejected by some.
Bausch mentions a case in which the omentum, stomach, and pancreas were found in the thoracic cavity, having protruded through an extensive opening in the diaphragm.
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.
Several ribs were severed, and the left thoracic cavity was wholly exposed to view, showing the lungs, diaphragm, and pericardium all in motion.
There were marked signs of peritonitis, and in the absence of sufficient other symptoms, it could be said that this woman had died of peritonitis in the left thoracic cavity.
Guthrie has mentioned a parallel instance of a ball traversing the thoracic cavity, the patient completely recovering after treatment.
All the lymph is collected into the largest lymphatic of all, the thoracic duct, which leads into the subclavian vein in the upper chest and is thus restored to the main circulatory system.
From this reservoir the chyle and lymph flow into the thoracic duct, through which they are conveyed to the left subclavian vein, there to be mingled with venous blood.
At this place it mingles with the lymph from the lower parts of the body, and with it passes through the thoracic duct to the left subclavian vein.