Example Sentences for obstructive. There is no obstructive limit to the achievements of the army of labor. The masters had been selfish and obstructive, the men selfish, silly, and light-headed. It is disgraceful, however, for the citizen to remain indifferent or obstructive, to grumble over the cost.
A vein running along the back wall of the thorax on the right side of the thoracic aorta; at the level of the fourth thoracic vertebra, the azygos vein curves forward, over the top of the hilum (root) of the right lung, and empties its blood into the superior vena cava.he vein accompanying the common iliac artery; it is formed by the union of the external and internal iliac veins, and it ends by merging with the opposite common iliac vein to form the inferior vena cava.
one of the 12 pairs of arches of bone forming a large part of the thoracic skeleton. The first seven ribs on each side are called true ribs because they articulate directly with the sternum and vertebrae. The remaining five ribs are called false ribs. The first three attach ventrally to ribs above.