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chest wall

n. (context medicine English) The set of tissues that bound the thoracic cavity, including the rib cage, fascia, muscles etc.

Usage examples of "chest wall".

Her heart pounded suffocatingly against her chest wall as his body heat and scent invaded her senses.

He leapt up, head down, ears back, beginning an experimental growl, his entire chest wall vibrating like a swarm of bees on the move.

He felt his breathing return to some semblance of normality, though the slamming of his heart against his chest wall did not decrease.

It causes giddiness, elation, a tickling on the chest wall, the urge to climb a balcony on the rope of the beloved’.