AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("area of cardiac dullness" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Holonyms ("area of cardiac dullness" is a part of...):

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)

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