Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated outside the thorax.
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- adjective medicine Outside the
chest .
Etymologies
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From extra- + thoracic, the latter part being from thorax + -ic.
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Examples
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The ventilator, known as CNEP (continuous negative extrathoracic pressure), used changes in pressure to make the lungs expand and contract.
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Those in the middle third have not been successfully treated by surgical methods, though various ingenious operations for the formation of an extrathoracic esophagus have been suggested as means of securing relief.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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