NOUN
- the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart
How To Use chest cavity In A Sentence
- The animal could be fatally wounded but may bleed internally untill the chest cavity is full. I am a new hunter, hunting only 4 seasons. I took my first deer last year.
- Her heart beat hard within her chest cavity; each beat in syncopation with the drummers' cadence.
- No other abnormalities were seen in the pelvis, abdomen, or chest cavity.
- The patient had open fractures of shin bones, dextral pleuropneumonia (mild case), foreign bodies in chest cavity and chest.
- The right lung is atelectatic and floating in bloody fluid filling the right chest cavity as a consequence of trauma. This is a hemothorax.
- The tumour, which had started in an organ called the thymus gland in the chest cavity, was also crushing his heart and lungs and constricting the vital arteries supplying his body with blood. Boing Boing
- Place onion, orange and thyme in chest cavity of the turkey. The Sun
- The creature was a quadruped, two appendages connected to the upper chest cavity, in a very mammalian like structure.
- Thin serous membrane in mammals that envelops each lung and folds back to make a lining for the chest cavity. pleuritic (pleurisy) Surgical Anatomy
- This abnormality, which occurs as the fetus is forming, is an opening in the diaphragm (the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity) that allows abdominal organs to move into the chest. CDH — Spence
