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  • noun Plural form of thoracic.

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Examples

  • The vertebral column, preserved in articulation, has 7 cervicals, 13 thoracics, 6 lumbars, 4 sacrals, and 21 caudals.

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  • The vertebral formula (cervicals, thoracics, lumbars, sacrals, caudals) is 7C-13T-6L-4S-21Ca for a total of 51 vertebrae, which differs by only two caudal vertebrae from the formula found in some primitive artiodactyls

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  • The vertebral column, preserved in articulation, has 7 cervicals, 13 thoracics, 6 lumbars, 4 sacrals, and 21 caudals.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • The problems I usually see in body-builders and athletes is associated more with referred pain into the shoulder from the neck or thoracics (mid back).

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Referred pain Much shoulder pain is referred from the neck, or thoracics and makes it's way across the shoulder and down the arm, mimicking shoulder pain.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • The problems I usually see in body-builders and athletes is associated more with referred pain into the shoulder from the neck or thoracics (mid back).

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Referred pain Much shoulder pain is referred from the neck, or thoracics and makes it's way across the shoulder and down the arm, mimicking shoulder pain.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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