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Definition
Subdivision of thorax, which in humans is the posterior part of the thorax and is demarcated from the chest by the external surface of the posterolateral part of the rib cage and the anterior surface of the thoracic vertebral column; together with the chest, it constitutes the thorax.
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Parts in this atlas
- ninth thoracic vertebra
- tenth thoracic vertebra
- eleventh thoracic vertebra
- twelfth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of first thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of second thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of third thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of fourth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of fifth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of sixth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of seventh thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of eighth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of ninth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of tenth thoracic vertebra
- intervertebral disk of eleventh thoracic vertebra
- first thoracic vertebra
- second thoracic vertebra
- third thoracic vertebra
- fourth thoracic vertebra
- fifth thoracic vertebra
- sixth thoracic vertebra
- seventh thoracic vertebra
- eighth thoracic vertebra
Neighbouring structures
Identifiers
- TA2
- 136
- FMA
- 24217
- UBERON
- 0008231
- Wikidata
- Q25507830