Sentence examples for thorax from inspiring English sources

The thorax was trimmed with fine hairs, culminating in the huge green compound eyes meeting at the top of the head, emeralds seamed with black.

However, the heart has been found to suffer the most, particularly with radiation to the thorax or mediastinum, the central part of the thoracic cavity.

The thorax is chiefly concerned with locomotion.

Similar to other members of Apocrita, wasps have a narrow petiole, or "waist," which attaches the abdomen to the thorax.

In homopterans and heteropterans all the abdominal ganglia usually fuse with mesothoracic and metathoracic ganglia; and in the larvae of higher flies (Cyclorrhapha), the ganglia of the brain, thorax, and abdomen form one mass.

The thorax may have three visible segments, may have either the mesothorax and metathorax fused, or may have all three fused into a single segment as in the Anoplura.

Features separating the lower categories are the special modifications of mouthparts, crop, antennae, sutures, and internal thickening of the head capsule; the number and form of claws; the segmentation of thorax and abdomen; the form of body plates; the number of spiracles; the pattern of bristles (or setae); and features of the male genitalia and terminal segments of the abdomen.

As in all adult insects, the segmented body consists of three primary body regions: head, thorax, and abdomen.

The adult housefly is dull gray with dirty-yellowish areas on the abdomen and longitudinal lines on the thorax.

Like most insects, adult lepidopterans have three distinct body segments, or tagmata the head, the thorax, and the abdomen each with special functions.

The thorax consists of three segments, the prothorax, mesothorax, and metathorax, each derived from a primitive segment.