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torso

[tawr-soh]

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noun, plural -sos, -si

[-see] .

the trunk of the human body.

a sculptured form representing the trunk of a nude female or male figure.

something mutilated or incomplete.

Origin:
1715–25; < Italian: stalk, trunk of statue < Latin thyrsus < Greek thýrsos wand, stem

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The significant fashion change is that the focus is now on the female torso.

But in one category there is a business school that stands head, shoulders, torso and trunk above the rest.

The short life history of this little boy would have to be reconstructed entirely from clues hidden in his tiny torso.

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The significant fashion change is that the focus is now on the female torso.

But in one category there is a business school that stands head, shoulders, torso and trunk above the rest.

The short life history of this little boy would have to be reconstructed entirely from clues hidden in his tiny torso.

The skeleton consists of a virtually complete skull, the entire torso and parts of the arms and legs.

The direhorse's and the torso breathing tubes gave it away.

To turn, you twist your torso and then simply point forward with one hand to walk in a direction.

His intelligent portrayal was marred only by a slight stiffness in the torso.

Well-pumped lats and pecs bulge out of a short polo-necked torso.

His torso is curved as if swaying to music only he hears.

Now imagine being able to rotate your torso as you swing.

Inside, a motor controls the up/down movement of the wings by spinning two wheels inside the torso.

The torso and hitting arm are positioned to enter the backswing.

The head and torso of one young man protruded from the slab of fallen concrete that had crushed him.

Admiration goes deeper than sun-kissed wing markings and a jazzy polka-dot torso.

The dust kicked up immediately behind its torso on the slope.

Keep your arms and shoulders rigid, so the swing can originate at the torso.

He also pressured her to eat sushi off the torso of a naked man.

After both arms were gone, the doctors moved on to the legs until only a head and torso remained.

He grips his mate, front legs clasped tight around her torso.

The boyfriend pillow is half a torso and an arm that wraps around you while you snooze.

The dead man in this scene had knife wounds on his torso and left arm.

The finished piece resembles an ocean-dwelling crustacean with a human torso emerging from its thorax.

The animal looked comically out of proportion, with a stretched-out skull that dwarfed its torso and hind limbs.

Just twist your upper torso from side to side, at the shoulders.

Traditional sleeping bags tend to hug the human torso as if it were a piece of meat between two slices of bread.

Women-specific comfort mummy cut increases warmth in torso and footbox.

The two arms hang on the torso via a small styro shelf on the arms.

Jovanovich shrugged off the misdirected punch scripted for his torso.

Sterile towels covered his face and entire torso except for a large rectangle perfectly framing the incision area.

Bend the torso in one direction and a leg jumps out.

The woman's body was found in the officer's bed with gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

The base of his trunk was as thick as a man's torso.

Beatrice's limbs and torso were still almost entirely devoid of muscle tone.

Only part of his torso remained, his neighbor reported.

Shi walks into the hotel suite and immediately doffs his clothes to reveal a perfectly ordinary torso.

It's a jet engine strapped to a fragile, easily crushed human torso.

Having your actual torso bitten off by an actual great white might actually be preferable to this.

Cut-to-fit rubber gaskets, which are pink here but will be black in the final product, connect the torso to the extremities.

One bag contained the woman's torso and head, another her arms and legs.

The lawyer said the torso had not been found until a month after the murder.

Keep adding more rows until the panel is large enough to cover your entire torso.

The abbreviated shirts and sweaters expose anywhere from an inch to a foot of torso.

Although it has a realistic face, the robot's limbs and torso were abbreviated to save on production costs.

Neither is it for the two air guards, who stand up, their torso and heads out of vehicles.

Stillwell no sooner enters than he stretches a raised arm back, his whole torso stretching with it.

His face and torso were painted in bold patterns, and his headdress made him look even more imposing.

The fourth no sooner throws her legs explosively forward in a jump than she arches her torso right back.

As sparkling snakes twined around the torso of little black dresses, wound in bracelets at.

He's got plaster on his long face, a paisley cap on his head, and an olive tunic covering his torso.

Each arm, leg, head or torso has different attributes.

One of the teenagers received second-degree burns to the upper torso.

Highly adjustable harness system with interchangeable waist straps and adjustable torso length.

It's fun to mix and match the different head, torso and feet cards to create unique heroes.

Made from high-density foam covered by vinyl-coated rubber, the torso has a fleshlike feel and gives on impact.

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torso (ˈtɔːsəʊ)

—n , pl -sos, -si
1.	the trunk of the human body
2.	a statue of a nude human trunk, esp without the head or limbs
3.	something regarded as incomplete or truncated

[C18: from Italian: stalk, stump, from Latin: thyrsus]

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Word Origin & History

torso

1797, from It. torso "trunk of a statue," originally "stalk, stump," from V.L. *tursus, from L. thyrsus "stalk, stem," from Gk. thyrsos (see thyrsus).

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Medical Dictionary

torso tor·so (tôr'sō)
n. pl. tor·sos or tor·si (-sē)
The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk.

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"There is no necessary connection between the important events of a life and the records of it that have been preserved in memory, in documents, in memorials, or in living testimony. The biographer must compose his life of what he has, just as the archeologist must restore his temple or his statue with such fragments as thieving time and careless men have left him; but fate often ironically leaves him a well-preserved leg and a dismembered torso, while the head, which would supply the main clue to the body, is missing. Hence, in addition to the purposive selection exercised by the subject himself and by the biographer in making use of such materials as are left, there exists a purely external selection dominated by chance, which cuts across the evidence in an arbitrary fashion. To correct for such distortions the biographer must be an anatomist of character: he must be able to restore the missing nose in plaster, even if he does not find the original marble."

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