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The human torso

torso | American Dictionary

torso
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɔr·soʊ/pluraltorsos
the main part of the human body without the head, arms, or legs

Examples of torso

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They were strapped in order to eliminate shoulder displacements and to fixate the subject's torso to the back of the seat.
It was concentrated primarily on their faces and limbs but was absent from their torsos.
The effects have to be compensated by the movement of the torso masses.
Three of these cases presented as mummy torsos with signs of severe spondylitis of the lumbar vertebral bodies and evidence for chronic pleuritis.
Her stable, warrior stance, extended limbs, and erect torso must convey her inner strength.
The method relies on simulating the filtering effects of the listener's pinna, head and torso by digital filters.
Namely, the camera is fixed at the robot torso and the image rotates with robot inclination and the torso angle.
A sliding mode control law has been developed for the biped to follow a human-like gait trajectory while keeping the torso nearly upright.
The legs and stomach were polished before or after the legs had been joined to the torso, but this area in between was largely ignored.
One leg of this parallel mechanism is the articulation between the scapula and the torso, the other leg is the clavicle.
The point is that the covered female torso does not seem to have had the connotation of modesty in any general sense.
Due to the nonrigidity of the body, there are differences in the phase and amplitude of vibration of the torso and head.
The goal is to stabilize the torso while lower body follows a desired walking profile.
To demonstrate the influence of the torso movements on the whole structure in a standing posture, two experiments were carried out.
For small feet radii, the energy for walking is produced by the weight of the torso that is inclined forward.
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