The left trunk or thoracic duct is much larger than the right, beginning in the abdominal region and traversing the entire length of the thorax to reach its destination.
A narrow tube; the thoracic duct is the main trunk of the absorbent vessels.
You know that all our scavengers uniting together deposit their sweepings in one large canal, which is called the thoracic duct.
A little further off, the thoracic duct pours its whole contents together into a large vein situated close to the heart, and the blood has no difficulty in recognising and appropriating what belongs to him.
The thoracic duct, which receives the newly dissolved food from the small absorbents, that collect it from the intestines.
From these again fresh lymphatic vessels arise which carry the fluid towards the main lymph-vessel, the thoracic duct.
The thoracic duct begins as an irregular dilatation known as the receptaculum chyli, opposite the first and second lumbar vertebrae, which receives all the abdominal lymphatics as well as those of the lower intercostal spaces.
The efferents from the deep cervical glands join to form a common vessel known as the jugular lymphatic trunk, and this usually opens into the thoracic duct on the left side and the right lymphatic duct on the right.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoracic duct" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
