(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
(n.) A coffin.
(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
(v. i.) To place in a coffin.
(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(2) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(3) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(5) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(6) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(7) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
(8) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(9) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(10) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
(11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
(12) Of the 2,472 patients with chest pain evaluated by the emergency medical technicians, 453 (18%) were diagnosed with AMI during hospitalization.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(15) The effect on mortality, serious ventricular arrhythmias and chest pain seemed to be similar in different age groups.
(16) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.
(17) ECG and chest impedance were continuously monitored and recorded.
(18) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(19) Spirometry and lung volumes, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, chest radiograph, methacholine airway challenge, and bronchoalveolar lavage were done.
(20) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
Thorax
Definition:
(n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
(n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
(n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
(n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(2) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(3) ELS (or accessory lungs) is a rare congenital abnormality defined as a lung segment outside a normal lung, usually localized in the left lower thorax.
(4) Respiratory failure, developing 7-9 days after inoculation, was associated with a decrease in lung-thorax compliance determined during artificial ventilation, and an increase in the amount of protein including the specific antibody in lung lavage fluid.
(5) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(6) Radiographs of the thorax were evaluated in 240 patients during the acute phase following a myocardial infarct.
(7) Their medical histories were consulted and further measures were taken such as a radiological thorax study, total IgE, TDI, MDI and HDI RAST, a basal spirometric study and finally a provocation test.
(8) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(9) In comparison with untreated controls from the same litters, there was a 4-7-fold enhancement of lung-thorax compliance in all groups of surfactant-treated animals during a 3-h period of artificial ventilation.
(10) The effect of manual percussion of the thorax in nine patients with stable chronic airflow obstruction and excessive tracheobronchial secretion has been studied.
(11) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(12) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(13) Patients with massive symptoms and signs indicating abdominal injury should receive high priority in the treatment of the multiple injury patient, second only to injuries to airways and thorax.
(14) Whole iic nerves of the rostral thorax (T2-T5) usually discharged during neural inspiration, whereas those of the caudal thorax (T7-T11) were primarily active during neural expiration.
(15) The following advantages must be pointed out in respect of using DLR in thoracic diagnosis in the intensive-care ward: No faulty exposures; the thorax can be x-rayed with the patient recumbent in bed, with lateral take: the image brightness in maintained at a constant level by histogram selection; electronic image processing and storage.
(16) Heart rate (HR), mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), cardiac output (CO), cardiac index (CI), systemic vascular resistance (SVR), and arteriovenous oxygen content difference (C[a-v]O2) were measured or calculated each time the surgeon's hand entered the thorax to dissect the esophagus.
(17) In both these cases of blunt injury to the thorax, careful examination of the patients resulted in early diagnosis and surgery.
(18) HRCT scans at the apex of the thorax in all nine patients scanned at this level showed that extrapleural fat with interspersed vessels accounted for most of the plain radiographic opacity.
(19) A radiograph of the thorax showed features of peribronchitis and infiltration in both lungs.
(20) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.