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hemithorax

hemithorax noun: one half of the thorax or chest.

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...

Forms of hemithorax

pluralhemithoraxes
pluralhemithoraces

Origin of hemithorax

From hemi- + thorax.

Questions about hemithorax

What does hemithorax mean?
Hemithorax means one half of the thorax or chest.
What part of speech is hemithorax?
Hemithorax is a noun.
What is the plural of hemithorax?
The plural of hemithorax is hemithoraxes.

Words near hemithorax in the dictionary

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

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