If Hitch would just lose some of that truncal obesity, he would breath easier.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Waterboard Thrill Ride" art installation.] Reference

Does the placement of adiposity truncal versus overall affect fat storage and release?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Gary Taubes a question | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

The third body region or trunk may attain a great length, one or two feet, or even more, and is also muscular, but the truncal muscles are of subordinate importance in locomotion, serving principally to promote the peristaltic contractions of the body by which the food is carried through the gut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The disease is dependent upon impairment or degeneration of the central, truncal or peripheral nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Patients experienced a mean truncal fat loss of 5.6 percent and a mean total body fat loss of 1.3 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

"This association may result from the mechanical effects of truncal obesity and / or the metabolic effects of adipose tissue," wrote Dr. Leone.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Inoculated Tg (CerPrP) mice were diagnosed with prion disease following the progressive development of at least three neurologic symptoms including truncal ataxia, 'plastic' tail, loss of extensor reflex, difficultly righting, and slowed movement.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

(body-cavity, perivisceral cavity) is divided into three portions completely separated from one another by septa: -- (1) proboscis-coelom, or first body-cavity; (2) the collar-coelom, or second body-cavity; (3) truncal coelom, or third body-cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Taenia capite truncal Befcb. berL Naturf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference

"truncal weight gain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference