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A chamber located within the upper human torso (and other animal bodies) which contains the heart and lungs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chest cavity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
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Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
قَفَص صَدْرِيّ
(qafaṣ ṣadriyy)
— chamber of the human body
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Bulgarian:
гръдна кухина
(grǎdna kuhina)
— chamber of the human body
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Catalan:
caixa toràcica
— chamber of the human body
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Chinese Mandarin:
胸腔
(xiōngqiāng)
— chamber of the human body
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Finnish:
rintaontelo
— chamber of the human body
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French:
cage thoracique
— chamber of the human body
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Galician:
cavidade torácica
— chamber of the human body
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Galician:
arca
— chamber of the human body
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German:
Brusthöhle
— chamber of the human body
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Greek:
θωρακική κοιλότητα
(thorakikí koilótita)
— chamber of the human body
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Hungarian:
mellüreg
— chamber of the human body
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Indonesian:
rongga dada
— chamber of the human body
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Indonesian:
ruang dada
— chamber of the human body
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Ingrian:
rintapoolosti
— chamber of the human body
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Ingrian:
syänkammari
— chamber of the human body
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Northern Kurdish:
singekelên
— chamber of the human body
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Russian:
грудна́я по́лость
(grudnája pólostʹ)
— chamber of the human body
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Spanish:
cavidad torácica
— chamber of the human body
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Swedish:
brösthåla
— chamber of the human body
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Thai:
ช่องอก
(chɔ̂ng-òk)
— chamber of the human body
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Ukrainian:
грудна́ порожни́на
(hrudná porožnýna)
— chamber of the human body