WordNet
n. any of twelve pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic region of the spinal cord
Usage examples of "thoracic nerve".
To give examples, the first four cervical nerves form the cervical plexus and the remaining four, plus the first thoracic nerve, form the brachial plexus (bray'kee-ul.
He saw the blade embedded in Kamiwara's flesh, and he smashed his knuckles again and again against the thoracic nerve bundle, feeling Kamiwara's right arm as a dead weight and immediately redirecting the heat in his mind into Kamiwara, the blood pounding through him, the hate and the fear coalescing in him, the organism reacting to the proximity of its own death, wanting, needing to strike out.
Half an hour, and the waves of pain rose and fell, reaching a shocking height before Stephen withdrew the splinter pressing on a thoracic nerve.