different between sternal vs thorax

English

Etymology

From sternum +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??.n?l/, /?st??.nl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?st?.nl?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

sternal (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of, relating to, or near the sternum.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “sternal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sternal”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Antlers, Lenarts, antlers, rentals, reslant, saltern

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??.nal/

Adjective

sternal (feminine singular sternale, masculine plural sternaux, feminine plural sternales)

1. sternal

Derived terms

• fourchette sternale

Further reading

• “sternal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek ????? (th?rax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thôr'aks, IPA^(key): /????æks/

Noun

thorax (plural thoraces or thoraxes)

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

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish

Noun

thorax

1. thorax

Declension

Synonyms

• (part of insect's body): keskiruumis

French

Pronunciation

Noun

thorax m (plural thorax)

1. thorax

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (th?rax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?o?.raks/, [?t??o??äks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.raks/, [?t?????ks]

Noun

th?rax m (genitive th?r?cis); third declension

1. (anatomy) chest, thorax
2. breastplate, cuirass
3. doublet, stomacher
4. bust (statue)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (breastplate): l?r?ca

Descendants

References

• thorax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thorax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thorax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• thorax in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• thorax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thorax in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Noun

thorax m (plural thoraxes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tórax (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).