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Chest wall
Pronunciation
Definition 1
The muscles, bones, and joints that make up the area of the body between the neck and the abdomen. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
The total system of structures outside the lungs that move as a part of breathing; it includes all structures from the skin to the parietal pleura. (NCI Thesaurus)
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