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  • noun anatomy The region of the body over the heart and thorax.

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  • noun the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach

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Examples

  • After feeling out of sorts for a time, the man experienced severe pain in the precordium and felt too ill to leave his bed.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • After feeling out of sorts for a time, the man experienced severe pain in the precordium and felt too ill to leave his bed.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pre-warmed gel was applied to the precordium as an ultrasound coupling medium

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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