November 10, four months after the shell wounds, while apparently in perfect health, the man began to complain of lancinating, intermittent pains in the abdomen, thorax and lumbar region.
There was a zone of hypesthesia on the right side of the thorax in the region of the lower ribs.
Re brachial monoplegia, the hysterotraumatic form first observed by Charcot has an anesthesia with the shoulder of mutton distribution, slightly affecting the thorax in front and behind, in addition to the paralysis.
The contractions of thethorax beat in time with contractions of the alae of the nose, about 112 per minute.
The thorax and abdomen were somewhat painful all over, but there was no especial point of pain.
The wound healed; but vague pains in the left thorax remained, especially when the man walked.
A soldier sustained a penetrating wound of the back of the thorax on the left side and received an injection of antitetanic serum.
His legs felt dead, and he had such violent pain in the thorax as to make breathing difficult.
Wounds of the lower part of the thorax may involve at the same time the thoracic cavity proper and its contained viscera, the diaphragm and the abdomen and its viscera.
During this time there was violent spasm of muscles of thorax and upper limbs.
Contused wounds of the thorax are more dangerous, especially if the violence was great, owing to the complicating fracture of the ribs, rupture of the thoracic viscera, etc.
Wounds or injuries of the thorax are grave or not according as they penetrate or injure the thoracic viscera or do not do so.
The thorax and abdomen become enormously distended, the features distorted and scarcely recognizable, and the hair and nails loosened.
Page believed these were due to the changed relation between the capacity of the thorax and volume of lungs.
Penetrating wounds of thethorax may involve the lungs, heart, or great blood-vessels.
Vibert[612] mentions a case of a penetrating wound of the thorax involving the heart, where the measured depth of the wound was 0ᵐ.
Also thethorax when opened at autopsy enlarges or expands a little, so that the measured depth of a wound may be greater than the weapon which caused it.
Wounds of the thoraxcaused by incising, puncturing, or blunt instruments.
This may also be accounted for by a depression or flattening of the thorax by the blow, as in the case of soft parts.
The body of these insects is more or less elongated, and the head, which is triangular or heart-shaped, is attached to the thorax by a distinct neck.
The male is entirely black; in the female the head and thorax are reddish.
The general tint is black with the antennæ, the sides of the thorax and the legs and apex of the abdomen yellow.
This insect is of dark brown colour and rather curious form, being so constructed that it can draw its head under the thorax out of sight, retract its six legs, and thus make itself into an oval pellet.
They are large, handsome insects, with a downy, yellow-brown thorax and shining black body which moves up and down in a wasp-like manner.
The body of a Lepisma consists of fourteen segments, the head being one, the thorax three, and the abdomen ten.
If we examine the thorax on one of its lateral surfaces, the muscles, on the contrary, are more extended.
A single bone, the sternum, is situated at the aspect opposite; the ribs bound the thorax on its sides.
There are on each side of the thorax as many ribs as there are dorsal vertebrae.
The Thorax The dorsal vertebrae form the posterior limit in man, and superior in quadrupeds, of the region of the trunk known as the thorax.
The larvae within the cases are worm- or caterpillar-like, with head and thorax usually brown and horny-walled, while the rest of the body is soft and whitish.
The head with the mouth-parts, and the thorax with the long strong legs, are the only parts of the body that project from the protecting case, and hence need to be specially hardened.
Onitis furcifer, processes of anterior femora of the male, and on the head and thorax of the female, i.
Bristles are usually present on the legs, and in the case of many families on the body also; those on the head and thorax are of great importance in classification.
The four posterior articulations of the thorax are straight and transverse; the next segment, or that corresponding with the second pair of cirri, is slightly inflected, in the usual way, towards the prosoma.
Moreover, in all Cirripedes there is another striking peculiarity connected with these parts, namely, the exclusive attachment of the whole thorax or included body to the internal ventral or sternal surface of the carapace and head.
These are situated in the same position as in the Lepadidae, namely, in a slight swelling on the sides of the thorax (Pl.
The rectum, lined by membrane continuous with that investing the thorax (and seen through it, in Pl.
Fourthly: in the male Ibla the capitulum is so much atrophied that it does not enclose the thorax or mouth, but still an elongated support or peduncle is left.
Of the thorax I need not give, from my notes, any more details.
On the thorax there is a deep black mark called trefoil.
The wings often remain unexpanded and two bristles present in wild fly (b) are absent on side of thorax (c).
The head and thorax of the wild fly are grayish-yellow, the abdomen is banded with alternate stripes of yellow and black.
There has appeared in our cultures a fly in which the third division of the thorax with its appendages has changed into a segment like the second (fig.
The spines on the thorax are twisted or kinky, which is due to a factor called "forked".
In another case the spines on the thorax became forked or kinky (fig.
The head and thoraxof the wild Drosophila ampelophila are grayish yellow, the abdomen is banded with yellow and black, and the wings are gray.
The two bristles on the sides of the thorax are constantly absent in this race.
Two types of markings on thorax of Drosophila repleta, both found "wild".
Even in the wild fly there is a three pronged mark on the thorax present in many individuals.
In the thorax of the Lepidoptera the foremost segment or prothorax is very small, and not movable on the mesothorax.
It is connected to the thorax by a relatively broad and membranous "neck.
The wasp first seizes a cockroach by the edge of its thorax and stings it in the thoracic region, then seizes the cockroach by an antenna and pulls and leads it to the nest.
The egg is attached at one end to the host's thorax behind a forecoxa.
In experiments in which the insects' abdomens were held immersed in water, with the thorax exposed, the insects died in 6 to 12 hours or less.
This species has a large number of long hydrophobic hairs on the ventral sides of the thorax and anterior abdominal segments.
Gongylonema neoplasticum migrates through the digestive tract and encysts in the muscles of the thorax and legs of the host (Fibiger and Ditlevsen, 1914).
Apparently, the host is eventually killed and the worms may leave the cockroach ventrally between the thorax and abdomen (pl.
In the thorax the pronotum and prosternum are closely associated with the mesothorax, but the pleura of the prothorax are usually shifted far forwards, so that the fore-legs are inserted just behind the head.
The true first segment, which undergoes a more or less complete fusion with the thorax is known as the "median segment" or propodeum.
The limb should be immobilised in the position of abduction with the forearm and hand directed forwards; the most efficient apparatus is a plaster spica embracing the thorax and the upper limb down as far as the wrist.
The general shape of the thorax is altered: on the side of the convexity it is longer and narrower than normal and its capacity diminished, while on the side of the concavity it is shorter and broader and its capacity is increased.
The antero-posterior diameter of thethorax is thus increased, while its vertical diameter is diminished.
Simultaneous fracture of both clavicles usually results from a severe transverse crush of the upper part of the thorax or from a fall on the outstretched hands--for example, in hunting.
No sooner had he ceased than up got Thorax the Boeotian.
The head is connected with the thorax by a neck often protected by the overlapping front of the "tergum," or chitinous plate that covers the thorax.
The under (ventral) surface of the thorax is protected by another plate named "sternum.
These are spiders of moderate size, characterized by a big head marked off from the thorax by converging grooves.
The second kind is quite different; the abdomen in these workers is enormously distended so as to constitute a voluminous sphere, which may become four or five times larger than the thorax and head together.
The thorax commonly has three red stripes, the middle one forked anteriorly and confluent, with two red stripes on the crown of the head.
In the Cassidinae, the heart (Figure 14) is likewise short and furnished with two pairs of fissures, situated in the last segment of the thorax and the first segment of the abdomen.
That the last pair of feet of the thoraxis wanting in the young of the Wood-lice (Porcellionides, M.
The caudal portion of the embryo in the Diastylidae, as I have recently observed, is curved upwards as in the Isopoda, and the last pair of feet of the thorax is wanting.
In cases where segments are amalgamated together, such as the last two segments of the thoraxin Dulichia, the last abdominal segments and the tail in Gammarus ambulans and Corophium dentatum, n.
The head, the thorax and the scarf formed by the wings become a handsome, shiny black.
On each of the three segments of the thorax there are two long hairs, fixed to the lower surface; and there are two similar and still longer hairs at the end of the terminal ring.
The head is round and large, separated from the thorax by a strangulated furrow, crowned on top and in front with a sort of diadem of six hard, sharp, black spikes, arranged in a semicircle whose concave side faces downward.
The pupa slips into it, but does not pass through entirely: the head and thorax appear outside; the abdomen remains held in the gallery.
Remarkable in the first place by the protuberance of its thorax and the smallness of its head, the grub of the Anthrax acquires exceptional interest by its manner of feeding.
Only the head and thorax emerge into the outer air.
The thorax is smooth, the wing cases large, folded under the body like a scarf and coming almost to the middle of the abdomen.
The thorax bears three pairs of legs, the mouth has typically three pairs of appendages, which may be altered and modified in many different ways, according to the nature of the animal's way of feeding.
Their head is separated from the thorax; and the thorax is divided into three segments; these, however, do not come out clearly in the diagram.
The true Insects have a definite head, separated from the thorax, and a constriction between the thorax and the abdomen; this is why they are called insects, "cut in two.
The butterflies belonging to this family are generally quite small, with stout bodies, the thorax strongly developed in order to accommodate the muscles of flight.
The body is black, with the thoraxspotted with white.
Relatively long, strongly produced at the vertex; elevated on the thorax into a blunt tubercular prominence; green in color.
The thorax is more or less oval in form, being somewhat flattened upon its upper surface.
It will be seen from what has been said that the thorax bears the organs of locomotion.
The portion of the wings which is nearest to the thorax at the point where they are attached to the body is called the base; the middle third of the wing is known as the median or discal area, the outer third as the limbal area.
The thorax is relatively stout, in some genera exceedingly so.
The under side of the thorax is frequently spoken of by writers, in describing butterflies, as the pectus, or breast.
On the under side the thorax is black, spotted with white, the abdomen bright orange-red.
The head is rounded, thethorax strongly arched, the dorsal side of the abdomen very convex.
At the point where the abdominal and thoracic segments unite on the dorsal side there is a deep depression, succeeded on the middle of the thorax by a rounded elevation composed of the wing-cases.
The antennæ and eyes are black; the thorax and extremity of the body cream colour; he abdomen yellow, spotted on the top and sides with black.
The dorsum of the prothorax, commonly called the thorax in beetles; whereof the under part is the prosternum.
On the thoraxare three black marks, running parallel with it, with several black spots on the abdomen.
The thorax is clothed with long soft hair, and, {14}with the abdomen, is of a darkish brown.
The thorax and abdomen yellow, clouded with a light reddish-brown colour, inclining to crimson.
Behind the head are two black spots, and on the thorax are three others, longer, and running parallel with it.
The thorax increases in dimensions in all directions; it becomes deeper, broader and longer.
Not only does the thorax become more capacious but also more mobile and more responsive to the varying requirements of the system.
Unique by the combination of purplish head and thorax and green abdomen, the general effect recalling A.
Thus a division of labour would be effected; the branchiae on the thorax would be devoted to locomotion; those on the abdomen to respiration.
The rudimentary thorax presents traces of a division into three segments; and the dorso-lateral margins of the cephalic blastoderm, behind the procephalic lobes, have a sinuous margin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thorax" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
