Definitions
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- noun anatomy The region of the body over the
heart andthorax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach
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Examples
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After feeling out of sorts for a time, the man experienced severe pain in the precordium and felt too ill to leave his bed.
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After feeling out of sorts for a time, the man experienced severe pain in the precordium and felt too ill to leave his bed.
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Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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Pre-warmed gel was applied to the precordium as an ultrasound coupling medium
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