athoracic en · ADJ
Etymology
From a- + thoracic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking a thorax
It was turned and delivered, and proved to be a hideous acephalic, acardiac, athoracic monster.
1889 December, Edward Winthrop Penney, “A CASE OF TRIPLETS, HYDRAMNION, AND MONSTROSITY, WITH REMARKS CONCERNING THESE THREE ABNORMALITIES”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume 22, number 11:(see title)
1916, H.O. White, “Tetragenesis of a Human Athoracic, Acephalic, Acardiac triplet with Numerous Ageneses”, in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 23, page 38:Dr. E. W. Penney read a paper on " Triplets, Hydraminion and Monstrosity," and exhibited a foetal monster of the acephalic, athoracic, acardiac type.
1889, Transactions of the Rhode Island Medical Society, page 15:
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