Definition of Thoracic medicine

1. Noun. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.

Generic synonyms: Medical Specialty, Medicine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoracic Medicine

thoracic duct
thoracic fistula
thoracic ganglia
thoracic girdle
thoracic glands
thoracic goiter
thoracic index
thoracic injuries
thoracic interspinal muscle
thoracic interspinales muscles
thoracic intertransversarii muscles
thoracic intertransverse muscles
thoracic kidney
thoracic limb
thoracic longissimus muscle
thoracic medicine (current term)
thoracic nerve
thoracic nerves
thoracic nucleus
thoracic outlet syndrome
thoracic part of aorta
thoracic part of oesophagus
thoracic part of spinal cord
thoracic part of thoracic duct
thoracic respiration
thoracic rotator muscles
thoracic spinal nerves
thoracic spine
thoracic spine fracture
thoracic splanchnic nerves

Literary usage of Thoracic medicine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of James Y. Simpson by James Young Simpson, Horatio Robinson Storer (1855)
"Mark what this difference between thoracic medicine, thirty or forty years ago, and that department of medicine now is to be attributed to. ..."

2. Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Women by James Young Simpson (1872)
"Mark what this difference between thoracic medicine, thirty or forty years ago, and that department of medicine now, is to be attributed to. ..."

3. Monthly Journal of Medical Science (1851)
"Mark what this difference between thoracic medicine, thirty or forty years ago, and that department of medicine now, is to be attributed to. ..."

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