The cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart.
The enclosed area created by and within the ribs.
1 Xavier's chest cavity had been split open and his vital organs removed.
2 I'd lost her forever, broken and abandoned in some xith'cal's chest cavity .
3 She had tiny tumours on her liver, stomach, abdomen and chest cavity .
4 I looked into his chest cavity and saw organs melting in blue flame.
5 Neb heard a high-pitched whine from deep inside Isaak's chest cavity .
6 Lex's hands started shaking as her chest cavity became a furnace.
7 Torn sheets of Kevlar parted, and I could see inside his chest cavity .
8 She's pumping air into her chest cavity , she's collapsing her lungs.
9 She removed over a litre of blood from his chest cavity .
10 The chest cavity is thus enlarged from side to side and from behind forwards.
11 The cough went on and on, like a paper-shredder working in his chest cavity .
12 The bony shield was lifted to reveal the chest cavity .
13 In silence, Charles spun the cipher into the lock and opened Isaak's chest cavity .
14 The serous membrane enveloping the lung and lining the inner surface of the chest cavity .
15 I think they're up in my chest cavity somewhere.
16 The diaphragm is the large muscle which divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity.
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