upper trunk
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Power is derived from the rotation of the legs, hips, pelvis and upper trunk, the body passing energy to the arm.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2012
Progesterone breaks down into androgens, Dr. Fisher pointed out, and these stimulate the production of sebum, the waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of the upper trunk and head.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the upper trunk so-called double and multiple comedo have been noted—the two, three, or even four closely-contiguous blackheads are, beneath the surface, intercommunicable, the dividing duct-walls having apparently disappeared by fusion.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Bark-formation early, the scales deciduous, the upper trunk and branches red.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
