toracico

Torácico is an adjective in Spanish used to indicate relation to the thorax, the chest region of the body that contains the rib cage, sternum, and thoracic cavity. The term derives from tórax, the noun for the chest, which in turn comes from Latin thorax, thoracis, and is used in medical and anatomical language to describe structures, regions, and conditions associated with the chest. The feminine form is torácica and the plural torácicos/torácicas.

In anatomy and medicine, torácico is commonly found in phrases such as pared torácica (thoracic wall), cavidad torácica (thoracic cavity), columna torácica (thoracic spine), and región torácica (thoracic region). It is also used in clinical terms like dolor torácico (chest pain), cirugía torácica (thoracic surgery), and imagen torácica (thoracic imaging). Other examples include arteria torácica interna (internal thoracic artery) and trauma torácico (thoracic trauma).

The term is standard in both human and veterinary medicine, where it helps distinguish chest-related anatomy and procedures from other regions. While tórax is the noun for the chest, torácico functions as an adjective that modifies nouns to specify a thoracic context. Proper usage follows gender and number agreement (torácico/torácica, torácicos/torácicas) in accordance with the noun it describes.