Usage examples for thoracic:

• This abnormal condition has arisen from the powerful development of the thoracic muscles. "A Manual of the Antiquity of Man" – J. P. MacLean

• Of the five specimens of P. subis dissected, one individual had the former arrangement on both sides, and one had the latter on both sides, whereas in the remaining three the thoracic artery arose from the coracoid artery on one side and from the subclavian on the other side. "Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae" – Marion Anne Jenkinson

• The first three, or thoracic ganglia are plainly distinguishable from one another, although they are set very close together; the rest are all in contact. "More Hunting Wasps" – J. Henri Fabre

• K. Thoracic half of the great pectoral muscle. "Surgical Anatomy" – Joseph Maclise