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cervicothoracic

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cervicothoracic /cer·vi·co·tho·rac·ic/ (-thah-ras´ik) pertaining to the neck and thorax.
cer·vi·co·tho·rac·ic (sûrv-k-th-rsk)
adj.
1. Relating to the neck and thorax.
2. Relating to the disk between the seventh cervical vertebra and first thoracic vertebra, or to the fusion of these vertebrae.

cervicothoracic
[-thôras′ik]
pertaining to the neck and thorax.


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Spinal posture and gender When adolescents were sitting looking straight ahead they had a mean head flexion of 71 degrees (SD 10), neck flexion of 52 degrees (SD 9), craniocervical angle of 161 degrees (SD 12), cervicothoracic angle of 149 degrees (SD 8), trunk angle of 232 degrees (SD 11), lumbar angle of 129 degrees (SD 18), and pelvic tilt angle of 5 degrees (SD 15).
of Chicago Hospitals) the text contains 166 chapters covering system used in the craniovertebral junction, the anterior cervical spine, the posterior cervical spine, the cervicothoracic junction, the anterior thoracic and thoracolumbar junction, the posterior thoracic and thoracolumbar junction, the anterior lumbar spine, the posterior lumbar spine, and the lumbosacral junction and sacrum.
A digestive endoscopy and a cervicothoracic tomodensitometry with contrast media injection revealed no abnormality.
 
 
 
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