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Definition of Thoracic vertebra

1. Noun. One of 12 vertebrae in the human vertebral column; thoracic vertebrae extend from the seventh cervical vertebra down to the first lumbar vertebra.

Definition of Thoracic vertebra

1. Noun. (anatomy) Any of the twelve vertebrae in the chest region of the spine. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoracic Vertebra

Literary usage of Thoracic vertebra

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Ninth thoracic vertebra may have no demi-facets below. ... The Tenth Thoracic Vertebra has (except in the cases just mentioned) an entire articular ..."

2. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"(B) Lower border of spine of second thoracic vertebra. Fourth " (A) Just below upper border of spine of first thoracic vertebra. vertebra. ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"583, it will be seen that a lesion at (A), at the level of the 12th thoracic vertebra, involving the spinal cord (but not the adjacent N. femoralis) will ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"equal in width with the first thoracic vertebra, and these are the widest of the series except the lumbar vertebra. The axis undergoes an abrupt decrease in ..."

5. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The superior aperture, or inlet of the thorax, is a narrow opening which is bounded by the first thoracic vertebra, the Right vagus ..."

6. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"It springs from the transverse processes of the upper five thoracic vertebra;, and is inserted into the spines of the second to the fifth cervical vertebra: ..."

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