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Echoscope :: Echoscope (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.

Pleurobranch :: Pleurobranch (n.) Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

Mesothorax :: Mesothorax (n.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Hydrothorax :: Hydrothorax (n.) An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Abdomen :: Abdomen (n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity..

Baenomere :: Baenomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods.

Metathorax :: Metathorax (n.) The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Arthrostraca :: Arthrostraca (n. pl.) One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda..

Prosoma :: Prosoma (n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod..

Elater :: Elater (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle..

Waist :: Waist (n.) That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.

Thorax :: Thorax (n.) 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 vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest..

Thoracic :: Thoracic (a.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest..

Thoracic :: Thoracic (n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.

Scutellum :: Scutellum (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax..

Interthoracic :: Interthoracic (a.) In the thorax.

Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

Baenosome :: Baenosome (n.) The thorax of Arthropods.

Abdomen :: Abdomen (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda..

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