thoracic

• thoracick (obsolete)

From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from θώραξ (thṓrax, “thorax”).

• IPA^(key): /θəˈɹæsɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æsɪk

thoracic (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of the thorax.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 106:

     Those wings were powered by massive thoracic muscles—muscles no longer needed by a flightless queen.

• thorax

thoracic (plural thoracics)

1. (zoology) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.

• trochaic

thoracic (uncountable)

1. thoracic (of the thorax)