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pectoral

1. of or relating to the chest, breast, or thorax
2. a pectoral organ or part, esp a muscle or fin
3. a medicine or remedy for disorders of the chest or lungs
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Stretching the pectoral muscles in the upper chest may provide relief, since lengthening these muscles releases some of the "pull" on the rhomboids.
The sternoclavicular artery divided into two branches, namely, the sternal artery and the clavicular artery, both of which supplied the pectoral muscles and the proximal part of the thorax.
Deficiency of the pectoral muscles. Guy Hosp Rep 1841 pp 191-193.
Pectoral muscles work a lot in the opah, warming blood that eventually flows through the gill heat exchanger.
with most abundant in heart and skeletal muscles (longissimusdori muscles pectoral muscles and crural muscles) in Anhui white goats while there were the least expression in other tissues.
On CT and MRI images the absence of pectoral muscle was noted on rightside.
Inability to straighten the back of the subject to the wall upright upper limbs testified shortened pectoral muscles [9,10] and it was noted that the result of the test was a positive.
TARGET AREA : Press ups develop the pectoral muscles and triceps, with added benefits to the deltoids and the midsection as a whole.
Weight training can make the underlying pectoral muscles tighter and lift them so that the tissue appears not so much bigger, but more appealing.
In 2008, DNA was extracted from the pectoral muscles of a pigeon that had been naturally infected during a recent outbreak in Germany.
But exercise works to increase the pectoral muscles underneath, making you look perkier.
Then Nagahuedi checked the quails' pectoral muscles to see if their capacity to consume oxygen to produce energy had improved.
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