AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does area of cardiac dullness mean? 

• AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS (noun)
  The noun AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS has 1 sense:

1. a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs

  Familiarity information: AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AREA OF CARDIAC DULLNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("area of cardiac dullness" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Holonyms ("area of cardiac dullness" is a part of...):

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)