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chest

1. 
a. the front part of the trunk from the neck to the belly
b. (as modifier): a chest cold
2. a sealed container or reservoir for a gas
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[ClickPress, Mon Nov 19 2018] The global pectus bar system market is apprehended to see impressive growth in the near future due to rising patient pool, high adoption of minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum and increasing incidence of pectus excavatum and other sternal deformities.
The initial attempt to treat patients with pectus excavatum was unsuccessful until the mid-20th century.
She did not have scoliosis, pes planus/cavus or a pectus deformity.
Among these abnormalities, it is plausible to expect that some of these can cause respiratory function problems under certain conditions like anesthesia and pregnancy: dextrocardia, scoliosis, pectus carinatum, pectus excavatum, lung herniation, paradoxical respiration (3).
His topics include vernacular exegesis in 14th-century England, editing Middle English lyrics: the case of Candet Nudatum Pectus, a 15th-century vernacular miscellany revisited, some Yorkshire scribes and their context, John of Wales and classicizing friars, and Hawkin and Patience's instruction.
Adam's condition is known as Pectus excavatum - or concave chest - and means he has three inclines in his chest that his mum said had "tilted his heart slightly".
The project was developed by the students Nada Safi and Ibrahim Darwish and aims at curing the rib cage abnormalities resulting from the appearance of the shear bone towards the front (pectus carinatum).
Any physical disabilities that may affect lung function such as kyphoscoliosis, pectus excavatum, and pectus carinatum and
And although the surgery for the 27-year-old patient was the first to be performed in the UAE to correct funnel chest or pectus excavatum, more such procedures will soon be undertaken, a top doctor at the hospital told Gulf News.
His parents reported that he possessed pectus carinatum at age of 2 years and scoliosis at age of 8 years.
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