Usually means: Chest area between neck, abdomen.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word thorax:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. thorax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thorax: Merriam-Webster
  3. thorax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thorax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thorax: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thorax: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thorax, thorax: Wordnik
  8. thorax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Thorax, Thorax, Thorax, Thorax, Thorax, Thorax: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. thorax: Wiktionary
  11. thorax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. thorax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. thorax: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. thorax: Dictionary.com
  15. thorax: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Thorax (disambiguation), Thorax (insect anatomy), Thorax (journal), Thorax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thorax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thorax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thorax: Rhymezone
  20. Thorax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thorax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. thorax: FreeDictionary.org
  23. thorax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. thorax: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thorax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. thorax: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Thorax: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Thorax: MedFriendly Glossary
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Thorax, Thorax: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Thorax: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  11. thorax: Medical dictionary
  12. Thorax: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. Thorax: HYPP Zoology
  5. Biological Control (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  7. thorax: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thorax: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See thoraces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
noun:  (entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.

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