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The body's middle management: takes orders from the brain, does the actual heavy lifting.
means The central segment of the body between the neck and abdomen, housing the heart and lungs and, in insects, the middle section bearing legs and wings.
from From Greek thōrax, meaning 'breastplate' or 'chest' — a word that originally described the armor before it came to describe the body part it protected. Latin borrowed it wholesale, and it walked into English (14th–16th century, via medical and anatomical Latin) still carrying that faint clink of armor plating.
- location
- Between neck and abdomen, no vacation days
- insects
- Houses wings and legs, the true engine room
- contents
- Heart and lungs, basically your life support closet
- etymology
- Greek for breastplate, armor you were born with