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hemithoraces

hemithoraces is the plural of hemithorax.

Meaning of hemithorax

Noun

hemithorax (plural hemithoraxes or hemithoraces)

  1. One half of the thorax or chest
    • His medical history included a controllable arterial hypertension and a localized pleural thickening at the right hemithorax as an inactive residuum resulting from a lower respiratory tract infection that occurred 7 years ago.2015 June 4, Stamatis Katsenos et al., “Primary Bronchopulmonary Actinomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer: Apropos of Two Cases and Literature Review”, in Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, volume...

Questions about hemithoraces

What is hemithoraces the plural of?
Hemithoraces is the plural of hemithorax.

Words near hemithoraces in the dictionary

  1. hemithalamectomy
  2. hemitheid
  3. hemitheids
  4. hemithioacetal
  5. hemithioacetals
  6. hemithoraces
  7. hemithoracic
  8. hemithorax
  9. hemithoraxes
  10. hemithyroidectomies
  11. hemithyroidectomy

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