"chest wall" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chest walls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} chest wall (plural chest walls)
  1. (medicine) The set of tissues that bound the thoracic cavity, including the rib cage, fascia, muscles etc. Wikipedia link: chest wall Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: thoracic wall Translations (set of tissues that bound the thoracic cavity): 胸壁 (xiōngbì) (Chinese Mandarin), rintakehä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-chest_wall-en-noun-lfVmQ57e Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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