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Prothorax   /proʊθˈɔræks/   Listen
Prothorax

noun
1.
The anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs.





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"Prothorax" Quotes from Famous Books



... head is said to correspond to the bones of the face, to the bones of the cerebrum and to the hyoid of higher Vertebrates, the skeleton of the prothorax to the bones of the cerebellum, of the palate, and the pieces of the larynx, the skeleton of the mesothorax to the parietals, interparietals, and opercular bones, and that of the metathorax to the skeleton of the thorax ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Prothorax" :   thorax


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