Tommy Thompson is an American politician, who served as governor of Wisconsin (1987–2001) and as U.S. secretary of health and human services (2001–05) and who sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Thompson received a bachelor’s degree in political science (1963) and a law degree

Tommy Thompson is an American politician, who served as governor of Wisconsin (1987–2001) and as U.S. secretary of health and human services (2001–05) and who sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. Thompson received a bachelor’s degree in political science (1963) and a law degree

Second Seminole War: General Wiley Thompson was assigned to oversee the removal of the Seminoles in 1834. After learning that they did not intend to leave Florida, he informed the Seminoles that President Jackson had authorized him to remove them by force if necessary. Osceola emerged as a leader…

Bendigo was an English bare-knuckle boxer who became a Methodist evangelist and who is one of the few athletes whose name is borne by a city—Bendigo in Victoria, Australia. His nickname apparently is a corruption of the Old Testament name Abednego. Thompson was one of triplets; the other two were

William Tappan Thompson was an American humorist remembered for his character sketches of Georgia–Florida backwoodsmen. Thompson was orphaned in his early teens, worked briefly on a Philadelphia newspaper, then worked as assistant to the secretary of the Florida territory. He moved to Georgia in

Sioux City, city, seat (1856) of Woodbury county, northwestern Iowa, U.S. It lies on the Missouri River (bridged to South Sioux City, Nebraska) at the influx of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers, where Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet. The former territory of Omaha, Sioux, and Oto peoples, the

folk dance: William John Thoms and folkloristics: ) The English antiquarian William John Thoms (using the pseudonym Ambrose Merton) coined the English word folklore in August 1846, taking credit in a letter to the periodical The Athenaeum.

myotonia: Myotonia congenita and myotonic muscular dystrophy are usually caused by a mutation or other abnormality in a gene known as CLCN1 (chloride channel 1, skeletal muscle). That gene normally produces a protein that controls chloride channels in skeletal muscle fibre cells. However,

myotonia: Myotonia congenita and myotonic muscular dystrophy are usually caused by a mutation or other abnormality in a gene known as CLCN1 (chloride channel 1, skeletal muscle). That gene normally produces a protein that controls chloride channels in skeletal muscle fibre cells. However,

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was a Danish archaeologist who deserves major credit for developing the three-part system of prehistory, naming the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages for the successive stages of man’s technological development in Europe. His tripartite scheme brought the first semblance of

Icelandic literature: The 19th century: The poet Grímur Thomsen was contemporary with but distinct from this group; his poetry was less lyrical but more austere and rugged, as Hemings flokkur Áslákssonar (1885; “The Story of Heming Aslakssonar”) exemplifies.

Julius Thomsen was a Danish chemist who determined the amount of heat evolved from or absorbed in a large number of chemical reactions. Thomsen held two teaching posts before he became professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen (1866–91). He verified Gustav Kirchhoff’s equation

Julius Thomsen was a Danish chemist who determined the amount of heat evolved from or absorbed in a large number of chemical reactions. Thomsen held two teaching posts before he became professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen (1866–91). He verified Gustav Kirchhoff’s equation

Orhon inscriptions: …1893 by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen. They are on two large monuments, erected in ad 732 and 735 in honour of the Turkish prince Kül (d. 731) and his brother the emperor Bilge (d. 734), and are carved in a script used also for inscriptions found in Mongolia, Siberia,…

Thomson atomic model, earliest theoretical description of the inner structure of atoms, proposed about 1900 by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and strongly supported by Sir Joseph John Thomson, who had discovered (1897) the electron, a negatively charged part of every atom. Though several alternative

thermoelectric power generator: Thomson effect: …τ is known as the Thomson coefficient.

Thomson Corporation, Canadian publishing and information services company. Its specialty reporting covers the fields of law, business and finance, medicine, taxation, and accounting. Although it is a publicly traded company, much of the stock is controlled by descendants of Roy Thomson, who, in the

radiation: Cross section and Compton scattering: …cross section is called the Thomson cross section, symbolized by the Greek letter sigma with subscript zero, σ0, and is equal to a numerical factor times the square of the term, electric charge squared divided by electron rest energy, or σ0 = (8π/3) (e2/mc2)2. When the photon energy is equal…

Thomson effect, the evolution or absorption of heat when electric current passes through a circuit composed of a single material that has a temperature difference along its length. This transfer of heat is superimposed on the common production of heat associated with the electrical resistance to

Technicolor, major French multimedia company and electronics manufacturer. The original company was formed in 1966 with the merger of Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston and Hotchkiss-Brandt, becoming known as Thomson-Brandt S.A. in 1972. Because its management was long dominated by career military

Thomson atomic model, earliest theoretical description of the inner structure of atoms, proposed about 1900 by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and strongly supported by Sir Joseph John Thomson, who had discovered (1897) the electron, a negatively charged part of every atom. Though several alternative

Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson was a Canadian-born British publisher, owner of The Times of London and other newspapers and communications media. Early in life Thomson worked as a clerk and salesman, later failed as a prairie farmer and supplier of motor parts, then sold radios successfully

Thomson Reuters, Canadian information services company. Founded as the Reuters news agency in Great Britain in 1851, it became one of the leading newswire services in the world. Its headquarters are in Toronto. The agency was established by Paul Julius Reuter, a former bank clerk who in 1847 became

Technicolor, major French multimedia company and electronics manufacturer. The original company was formed in 1966 with the merger of Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston and Hotchkiss-Brandt, becoming known as Thomson-Brandt S.A. in 1972. Because its management was long dominated by career military

gazelle: …three of the smaller species—Thomson’s gazelle, the red-fronted gazelle, and the Mongalla gazelle—have become the genus Eudorcas. The Gazella genus as traditionally defined includes eight species that occur only in Africa, five that occur only in Asia, and one species that occurs both in Africa and Asia. In the…

fluid mechanics: Potential flow: …were it not for the theorem, first proved by Thomson, that, in a body of fluid which is free of vorticity initially, the vorticity remains zero as the fluid moves. This theorem seems to open the door for relatively painless solutions to a great range of problems. Consider, for example,…

Western architecture: Great Britain: …the work of Alexander (“Greek”) Thomson, whose Caledonia Road Free Church (1856–57) is among the finest monuments of Neoclassical architecture in Scotland.

Continental Congress: ” Charles Thomson of Pennsylvania was elected secretary and served in that office during the 15-year life of the Congress.

Earl J. Thomson was a hurdler and versatile track athlete who held the world record for the 110-metre hurdles (1920–28). He was almost completely deaf from the 1940s. Thomson competed at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) from 1916 to 1918 (graduated 1920), and then served two years in the Royal

Elihu Thomson was a U.S. electrical engineer and inventor whose discoveries in the field of alternating-current phenomena led to the development of successful alternating-current motors. He was also a founder of the U.S. electrical industry. Thomson left England for Philadelphia as a child and

George Thomson was a Scottish amateur editor and publisher of Scottish folk songs, which he attempted to provide with semiclassical settings. Impressed by foreign vocalists’ renditions of Scottish folk songs at Edinburgh Musical Society concerts, Thomson determined to anthologize the songs in

George Julius Poulett Scrope was an English geologist and political economist whose volcanic studies helped depose the Neptunist theory that all the world’s rocks were formed by sedimentation from the oceans. Originally surnamed Thomson, he assumed the surname Scrope in 1821 on his marriage to the

J. Edgar Thomson was an American civil engineer and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company who consolidated a network of railroad lines from Philadelphia to various cities in the Midwest and the South, extending as far as Chicago and Norfolk, Va. Thomson joined the Pennsylvania engineer

J.J. Thomson was an English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure by his discovery of the electron (1897). He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 and was knighted in 1908. Thomson was the son of a bookseller in a suburb of Manchester. When he was only 14, he

waterpower: …Fourneyron’s design, notably those of James Thomson (about 1851) and James B. Francis (1855), using radial flow inward. Water turbines, used originally for direct mechanical drive for irrigation, now are used almost exclusively to generate electric power. See also hydroelectric power.

James Thomson was a Scottish Victorian poet who is best remembered for his sombre, imaginative poem “The City of Dreadful Night,” a symbolic expression of his horror of urban dehumanization. Reared in an orphanage, Thomson entered the Royal Military Academy, Chelsea, became a regimental

James Thomson is an American biologist who was among the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells and the first to transform human skin cells into stem cells. Thomson grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. At the University of Illinois, from which he graduated in 1981 with a bachelor’s

James Thomson was a Scottish poet whose best verse foreshadowed some of the attitudes of the Romantic movement. His poetry also gave expression to the achievements of Newtonian science and to an England reaching toward great political power based on commercial and maritime expansion. Educated at

James Thomson is an American biologist who was among the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells and the first to transform human skin cells into stem cells. Thomson grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. At the University of Illinois, from which he graduated in 1981 with a bachelor’s

history of photography: Landscape and architectural documentation: …a retinue of equipment bearers); John Thomson produced a descriptive record of life and landscape in China; and French photographer Maxime Du Camp traveled to Egypt with Gustave Flaubert on a government commission to record landscape and monuments.

J. Edgar Thomson was an American civil engineer and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company who consolidated a network of railroad lines from Philadelphia to various cities in the Midwest and the South, extending as far as Chicago and Norfolk, Va. Thomson joined the Pennsylvania engineer

algebra: New challenges and perspectives: …two Americans, Walter Feit and John G. Thomson, who proved an old conjecture of the British mathematician William Burnside, namely, that the order of noncommutative finite simple groups is always even. Their proof was long and involved, but it reinforced the belief that a full classification of finite simple groups…

Mount Aspiring: …and named by the explorer-surveyor John Turnbull Thomson in 1857, the peak was first scaled in 1909 by Major Bernard Head. It became the central feature of the 1,109-square-mile (2,872-square-kilometre) Mount Aspiring National Park, created in 1964 and extending south from Haast Pass to Fiordland National Park.

Joseph Thomson was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and explorer who was the first European to enter several regions of eastern Africa and whose writings are outstanding contributions to geographical knowledge, exceptional for their careful records and surveys. Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas

Trolley problem: …such by the American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson, whose essay “Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem” (1976) spawned a vast academic literature on the topic. The problem immediately suggested a broader application of the doctrine of double effect beyond the morality of abortion, a common context of modern discussions…

Lily James is an English screen and stage actress whose supporting role (2012–15) in the television series Downton Abbey launched her career. She was soon garnering lead parts in such big-screen movies as Disney’s live-action Cinderella (2015) as well as the Jane Austen parody Pride and Prejudice

Peter Thomson was an Australian golfer who won the British Open five times and who was the first Australian to win that tournament. Thomson won the British Open in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965, matching the number of wins by John Henry Taylor and James Braid and exceeded only by Harry Vardon,

Peter Thomson was an Australian golfer who won the British Open five times and who was the first Australian to win that tournament. Thomson won the British Open in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965, matching the number of wins by John Henry Taylor and James Braid and exceeded only by Harry Vardon,

Robert Thomson is an Australian journalist, newspaper editor, and executive who became the first non-British editor (2002–08) of The Times of London. He later served as managing editor (2008–13) of The Wall Street Journal before becoming CEO (2013– ) of News Corporation. Thomson was the son of a

Robert William Thomson was a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur, known as the inventor of the pneumatic tire. Thomson was the son of the owner of a woollen mill and was sent at age 14 to Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., to live with an uncle and learn the merchant’s trade. Two years later he

Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson was a Canadian-born British publisher, owner of The Times of London and other newspapers and communications media. Early in life Thomson worked as a clerk and salesman, later failed as a prairie farmer and supplier of motor parts, then sold radios successfully

Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson was a Canadian-born British publisher, owner of The Times of London and other newspapers and communications media. Early in life Thomson worked as a clerk and salesman, later failed as a prairie farmer and supplier of motor parts, then sold radios successfully

Sir C. Wyville Thomson was a Scottish naturalist who was one of the first marine biologists to describe life in the ocean depths. After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Thomson lectured in botany at the University of Aberdeen (1850–51) and Marischal College (1851–52) but

Sir C. Wyville Thomson was a Scottish naturalist who was one of the first marine biologists to describe life in the ocean depths. After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Thomson lectured in botany at the University of Aberdeen (1850–51) and Marischal College (1851–52) but

Sir George Paget Thomson was an English physicist who was the joint recipient, with Clinton J. Davisson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 for demonstrating that electrons undergo diffraction, a behaviour peculiar to waves that is widely exploited in determining the atomic

Sir John Arthur Thomson was a Scottish naturalist whose clearly written books on biology and attempts to correlate science and religion led to wider public awareness of progress in the biological sciences. A professor of natural history at the University of Aberdeen (1899–1930), Thomson

J.J. Thomson was an English physicist who helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure by his discovery of the electron (1897). He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906 and was knighted in 1908. Thomson was the son of a bookseller in a suburb of Manchester. When he was only 14, he

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin was a Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist who profoundly influenced the scientific thought of his generation. Thomson, who was knighted and raised to the peerage in recognition of his work in engineering and physics, was foremost among the small group of

law of definite proportions: …findings, but the Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson confirmed some of them and wrote in his article “Chemistry” in the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica (1801) that Proust had definitely proved “metals are not capable of indefinite degrees of oxidation.” The principle was then concretely formulated by the English chemist John…

Tom Thomson was a landscape painter devoted to the Canadian wilderness. Encouraged by fellow designers in a Toronto commercial-art firm, Thomson began to paint about 1911. In 1913 he and his colleagues (including A.Y. Jackson and J.E.H. MacDonald) went to Algonquin Provincial Park to paint. After

Tom Thomson was a landscape painter devoted to the Canadian wilderness. Encouraged by fellow designers in a Toronto commercial-art firm, Thomson began to paint about 1911. In 1913 he and his colleagues (including A.Y. Jackson and J.E.H. MacDonald) went to Algonquin Provincial Park to paint. After

Virgil Thomson was an American composer, conductor, and music critic whose forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among contemporary musicians. Thomson studied at Harvard University and later in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a noted teacher of musical composition. There he was

Technicolor, major French multimedia company and electronics manufacturer. The original company was formed in 1966 with the merger of Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston and Hotchkiss-Brandt, becoming known as Thomson-Brandt S.A. in 1972. Because its management was long dominated by career military

thomsonite, rare mineral in the zeolite family, similar to natrolite

Thon Buri, section of Metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand’s capital and largest city. Located on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, Thon Buri was formerly a separate city and changwat (province) from Bangkok proper, across the river, to which it was linked by three bridges. Thon Buri city was the

Thon Buri, section of Metropolitan Bangkok, Thailand’s capital and largest city. Located on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, Thon Buri was formerly a separate city and changwat (province) from Bangkok proper, across the river, to which it was linked by three bridges. Thon Buri city was the

Michael Thonet was a German-Austrian pioneer in the industrialization of furniture manufacture. His experiments in the production of bentwood furniture widely influenced both contemporary and modern styles and his functional and exquisitely designed chairs are still being manufactured. A humble

hand tool: Drilling and boring tools: Such a strap, or thong, drill could be applied to drilling either with an abrasive or with a tool point hafted onto the end of the stick. The upper end of the shaft required a pad or socket (drill pad) in which it could rotate freely.

Plain of Jars, dissected inner region of the Xiangkhoang Plateau in north-central Laos. Drained principally by the Ngum River, a southward-flowing tributary of the Mekong River, the plain is characterized by narrow river valleys and limestone and sandstone hills ranging from 3,000 to 3,600 feet

Tsonga, culturally similar Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting the southern coastal plain of Mozambique, parts of Zimbabwe and Swaziland, and the Transvaal of South Africa. They numbered some 4.6 million in the late 20th century. The Tsonga were formerly organized as independent peoples, each

Laos: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic: …as president and Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith to take over as prime minister from Thongsing Thammavong. Choummaly had served as general secretary and president since 2006, and Thongsing had been prime minister since 2010.

Laos: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic: …over as prime minister from Thongsing Thammavong. Choummaly had served as general secretary and president since 2006, and Thongsing had been prime minister since 2010.

Olympic Games: Sapporo, Japan, 1972: Gustavo Thöni won the giant slalom, Italy’s first victory in Alpine skiing in 20 years; 16 years later he would guide Alberto Tomba to Olympic victory. Dianne Holum (U.S.) won the women’s 1,500-meter speed skating event. After retiring from competition later in 1968, she became…

Thonon-les-Bains, town, Haute-Savoie département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. It sits on a lacustrine terrace overlooking the southern shore of Lake Geneva near the mouth of the Dranse River, about 19 miles (30 km) from Geneva, Switzerland. Thonon-les-Bains was the capital of

caricature and cartoon: Germany: …field were very thinly veiled; Eduard Thöny, one of this group, was especially popular for the way he conveyed the upper-class boorishness of Prussian officers.

William Butler Yeats: …a ruined Norman castle called Thoor Ballylee in the neighbourhood. Under the name of the Tower, this structure would become a dominant symbol in many of his latest and best poems.

Tuticorin, city, southern Tamil Nadu state, southern India. The city lies on the Gulf of Mannar of the Indian Ocean, about 25 miles (40 km) east of Tirunelveli, to which it is connected by road and rail. It developed from a small fishing village into a flourishing Portuguese colony in the 16th

Thor, deity common to all the early Germanic peoples, a great warrior represented as a red-bearded, middle-aged man of enormous strength, an implacable foe to the harmful race of giants but benevolent toward mankind. His figure was generally secondary to that of the god Odin, who in some traditions

Thor, American comic strip superhero created for Marvel Comics by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. The character, derived from the Germanic god of the same name, first appeared in Journey into Mystery no. 83 (August 1962). Thor’s first adventure introduced readers to the doctor Donald Blake.

Mediterranean Sea: Study and exploration: …the Danish expedition in the Thor in 1908–10, which covered as much of the Mediterranean Sea as possible with regard to pelagic (open-sea) animal life and its dependence on hydrographic (flow) conditions; the seasonal circulation between the western and eastern basins and between the Balearic and Tyrrhenian seas also was…

Kenneth Branagh: …his wife’s younger lover, and Thor (2011), an adaptation of a comic book about the eponymous Norse god. In 2014 he helmed the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, in which he also appeared as a vicious Russian banker.

Thor rocket, missile initially developed by the U.S. Air Force as an intermediate-range ballistic missile. It was subsequently modified to serve as the first stage of launch vehicles for several spacecraft. The Thor missile force was withdrawn in 1963. Propelled by liquid oxygen and kerosene, the

Christian Bale: …Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), Taiki Waititi’s irreverent take on the superhero genre. Bale reunited with Russell for Amsterdam (2022), a social satire about a fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. government in the 1930s. His other credits from 2022 include The Pale Blue Eye,…

Cate Blanchett: Hepburn, Dylan, and Academy Awards: …the goddess of death, in Thor: Ragnarok. The next year she starred in Ocean’s 8, the female-driven reboot of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise from the early 2000s, and The House with a Clock in Its Walls, an adaptation of a 1973 children’s fantasy novel.

Thor: Thor in other media: …projects, including The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

thoracentesis, medical procedure used in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the pleural space—the cavity between the lungs and the thoracic cage. It is most often used to diagnose the cause of pleural effusion, the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pleural space. Pleural

actinomycosis: …forms of the disease include thoracic, affecting primarily the lungs and surrounding structures, and abdominal and pelvic actinomycosis. Thoracic actinomycosis may result from inhalation of the organism into the air passages and is usually associated with weight loss, night sweats, coughing, and high fever. Lesions of the abdomen and pelvis…

connective tissue disease: Necrotizing vasculitides: …the aorta, involves principally the thoracic aorta (chest portion) and the adjacent segments of its large branches. Symptoms, including diminished or absent pulses in the arms, are related to narrowing and obstruction of these vessels. Takayasu arteritis is most common in young Asian women. The diagnosis and extent of vascular…

rib cage, in vertebrate anatomy, basketlike skeletal structure that forms the chest, or thorax, and is made up of the ribs and their corresponding attachments to the sternum (breastbone) and the vertebral column. The rib cage surrounds the lungs and the heart, serving as an important means of bony

thoracic cavity, the second largest hollow space of the body. It is enclosed by the ribs, the vertebral column, and the sternum, or breastbone, and is separated from the abdominal cavity (the body’s largest hollow space) by a muscular and membranous partition, the diaphragm. It contains the lungs,

thoracic duct, in mammalian anatomy, a principal channel for lymph. From about the level of the small of the back it runs up through the body, close in front of the backbone, to the base of the neck, where it opens into a blood vessel, at the point at which the left subclavian vein and the left

malacostracan: Size range and diversity of structure: The eight pairs of thoracic legs are typically biramous (two-branched). One or more pairs are modified for feeding in some groups. In free-swimming species all legs are similar in shape, and both branches are slender. In bottom-dwelling species, however, the inner branch has become a stiff walking limb, and…

human nervous system: The spinal cord: …segments: 8 cervical (C), 12 thoracic (T), 5 lumbar (L), 5 sacral (S), and 1 coccygeal (Coc). Spinal nerve roots emerge via intervertebral foramina; lumbar and sacral spinal roots, descending for some distance within the subarachnoid space before reaching the appropriate foramina, produce a group of nerve roots at the…

thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), name given for a spectrum of symptoms caused by compression of the brachial nerve plexus, which innervates the arm, and the subclavian artery and vein that provide blood circulation to the arm. The syndrome is typically diagnosed in people between 20 and 40 years of

thoracic squeeze, compression of the lungs and thoracic (chest) cavity that occurs during a breath-holding dive under water. During the descent, an increase in pressure causes air spaces and gas pockets within the body to compress. The lungs are among the few bodily organs that are influenced by

history of medicine: Anesthesia and thoracic surgery: …in anesthesia, it was the thoracic (chest) surgeon. What had challenged thoracic surgery previously was the collapse of the lung, which occurred whenever the pleural cavity was opened. Since the end of the 19th century, many and ingenious methods had been devised to prevent this from happening. The best known…

vertebral column: …cervical, in the neck, (2) thoracic, in the chest, which articulates with the ribs, (3) lumbar, in the lower back, more robust than the other vertebrae, (4) sacral, often fused to form a sacrum, which articulates with the pelvic girdle, (5) caudal, in the tail. The atlas and axis vertebrae,…

crustacean: Annotated classification: Order Thoracica Silurian to present; the true barnacles; most are nonparasitic; larvae are nauplii and cyprids; adult body typically contained within calcareous shell plates; about 800 species. Subclass Tantulocarida Holocene; eggs give rise to a tantulus larva with head shield and 6 pairs of thoracic limbs;…

human nervous system: Brachial plexus: …long thoracic (to serratus anterior), thoracodorsal (to latissimus dorsi), and subscapular (to teres major and subscapular). The axillary nerve carries motor fibers to the deltoid and teres minor muscles as well as sensory fibers to the lateral surface of the shoulder and upper arm. The biceps, brachialis, and coracobrachialis muscles,…

sympathetic nervous system, division of the nervous system that functions to produce localized adjustments (such as sweating as a response to an increase in temperature) and reflex adjustments of the cardiovascular system. Under conditions of stress, the entire sympathetic nervous system is