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chest
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chest (chest) thorax.
flail chest  one whose wall moves paradoxically with respiration, owing to multiple fractures of the ribs.
funnel chest  pectus excavatum.
pigeon chest  pectus carinatum.
chest (chst)
n.
The part of the body between the neck and the abdomen, enclosed by the ribs and the breastbone; thorax.
chest
see thorax, thoracic, flail chest.
chest compression
a means of external cardiac massage; most likely to be effective in small dogs and cats, but very difficult in large animals.
chest wound
common in horses and cattle, damage to the underlying chest wall with communication to the pleural cavity and pneumothorax is the main danger.
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