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athoracic

athoracic adjective: lacking a thorax.

Adjective

athoracic (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a thorax
    • 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...
    • 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 of athoracic

From a- + thoracic.

Questions about athoracic

What does athoracic mean?
Athoracic means lacking a thorax.
What part of speech is athoracic?
Athoracic is an adjective.

Words near athoracic in the dictionary

  1. Atholville
  2. Atholwood
  3. athomeness
  4. Athonite
  5. Athonites
  6. athoracic
  7. athoracophorid
  8. athoracophorids
  9. Athos
  10. athrepsia
  11. athrepsy

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