Word: thorax
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...gave a brilliant greenish yellow image solved the whole matter, for there are moving picture films which record clear pictures in those lights. Two seconds suffice to picture two or three beats of the heart, the acts of breathing and swallowing, movements of the diaphragm, abnormal action within the thorax, motions of joints. The relative thickness of the abdomen makes photographing the movements of its organs less satisfactory. Two seconds is too brief to get a good picture of the complete peristaltic wave of the stomach. But two seconds is enough to portray an ulcer in the fluctuating stomach...
...over which its membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left hand I clipped off, with my penknife in my right hand, the sharp point of the rib, which enabled me to return the lung into the cavity of the thorax, but could not retain it there on the least effort of the patient to cough, which was frequent...
...termites are commonly called "white ants." But they are not ants and are not always white. Termites maybe readily distinguished from ants by the absence of a '"waist" or constriction where abdomen joins thorax. They look more like tiny cockroaches, but they have a social organization antlike in its complexity...
Chairman Payson handsomely fits the role of heading an up & coming steel company. His broad thorax bent at an oar on three Yale varsity crews. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, a trustee of several hospitals. Plump Joan Whitney Payson has borne him four children, is a partner in a smart book shop. Last month she registered her colors with the American Jockey Club, thus officially taking to horse racing like all the other Whitneys. Husband Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family...
...went down for a count of eight, tottered when he arose, apparently hopelessly beaten. But he lasted out the round, was stronger in the next, soon began to pile up points, crowding Chocolate all the time, whipping clumsy but effective hooks to the blackamoor's kinky head and antlike thorax. After 15 rounds of it, referee and judges agreed that "cheese champion" was a real champion but the crowd, liking Chocolate's style, booed, tore up programs...