Auscultation and percussion : together with the other methods of physical examination of the chest.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1877
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    is increased; it is the falling of the shoulders ■which causes the alar appearance. The ptery- goid chest is often accompanied, as Aretseus Fig. 3. Circumference = 50'5 centimeters. Alar Thorax Tracing taken from a child. Tlie dotted line indicates the sha]ie •of the chest of a healthy cliild of the same size. The cii-cunife- rential measurement refers to the alar thorax. says, with a prominent throat, due to a long neck, and the head being carried unduly for- Tvards. ii. The Flat Chest.—The diminution in capa- city presented by the alar chest does not neces- sitate any great change in the outline which a horizontal plane of the thorax naturally pre- sents. But sometimes not only the size of the
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