thorax

Example Sentences

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Three dots, each a different color, on the bees’ minuscule thoraxes before releasing them again.

From New York Times

Darker red and orange hues in monarch wings have been linked to the ability to fly longer distances, suggestingpigment deposited on wings may be linked to thorax size, energy storage, and metabolism.

From Salon

Doctors said she had a thorax exam and is suffering from hypertension.

From Reuters

Oyifo Ana, 28, recalls that she was the first student to dissect and had just inserted her scalpel along the cadaver’s thorax when she heard Egbe screaming.

From Washington Post

One register is busy, surrealistic, grotesque: a Brobdingnagian nude woman swarmed with small figures in chaotic sexual poses; mummy-like forms, zippers up their thorax; body parts free-floating or severed; truncheons; bizarre machinery.

From New York Times