Talk:Thorax

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In the language spoken by the ordinary people one could say that chest is another word for thorax. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.57.250.81 (talk • contribs).

I do not understand why all the terms you're looking for in Wikipedia have to be of Latin Origin or of medical terminology. The English word "chest" is used and known by everyone and it is not just a colloquial word. I even cannot understand why you have to look for the term "umbilicus" instead of "navel"..????? But there is just one argument that would support the idea of merging "chest" into "thorax": it would be consequent! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.63.120.12 (talk • contribs).

I agree with the merge suggestion. The articles themselves show that these are (at least roughly) the same parts of the body. --Etxrge 06:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The trouble is that for animals, we don't use the word chest. For arthropods especially, like the trilobite and insect in this article, the word "thorax" designates a specific area of the body and is a commonly used scientific word. I therefore disagree with the merge, but instead I propose that we modify both articles so that "thorax" is only about the animal body part, and "chest" is only about the human body part. It looks like both articles are already sort of divided up like this, so there wouldn't be much to do. And of course we can make links from one article to the other, so that they are not isolated. For example, have a link on "thorax" like "for the human body part, see chest", and vice-versa. IronChris | (talk) 07:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I did this, entirely unaware of this discussion at first. --Steven Fruitsmaak 17:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)