Word Meanings - THORACIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. Thoracic duct , 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.

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• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• LACTEALLY
  Milkily; in the manner of milk.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• CHESTNUT
  The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that
• LYMPHATIC
  pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph. 2. Madly enthusiastic; frantic. " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. Etym: Lymphatic gland , one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; -- called
• CHESTERLITE
  A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• PROTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• DORSIVENTRAL
  Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• ORCHESTRAL
  Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• ORCHESTRIC
  Orchestral.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• DORSOVENTRAL
  From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.