athoracic

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adjective

Lacking a thorax

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Meanings

adjectiveathoracic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLacking a thorax

    (see title)

    1916, H.O. White, “Tetragenesis of a Human Athoracic, Acephalic, Acardiac triplet with Numerous Ageneses”, in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 23, page 38
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    It was turned and delivered, and proved to be a hideous acephalic, acardiac, athoracic monster.

    1889 December, Edward Winthrop Penney, “A CASE OF TRIPLETS, HYDRAMNION, AND MONSTROSITY, WITH REMARKS CONCERNING THESE THREE ABNORMALITIES”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume 22, number 11

    Dr. E. W. Penney read a paper on " Triplets, Hydraminion and Monstrosity," and exhibited a foetal monster of the acephalic, athoracic, acardiac type.

    1889, Transactions of the Rhode Island Medical Society, page 15

Origin

From a- + thoracic.

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Translations

French athoracique
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