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Thoracoplasty
Surgical removal of a rib to gain access during surgery or to collapse the chest wall and a diseased lung. (NCI Thesaurus)
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Chest pain. Also called thoracalgia.
An artery arising from the subscapular artery that supplies the muscles in the upper back.
An axillary artery branch that divides in four branches (pectoral, acromial, clavicular, and deltoid branch) supplying the regions of the shoulder and…
Relating to, involving, or affecting the thorax and abdomen.
One of 12 vertebrae in the human vertebral column. The thoracic vertebrae are situated between the seventh cervical vertebra down to the…
