Word: chesting
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...Jesus?" asked the other native, pointing with his spear to a small medallion of the cross which Sandford was wearing on his chest...
...quiet. But the outer supply routes of the world were athrong with ships, men and supplies : around the world's fat waist in the Indian Ocean and the south Pacific; around its chest in the Atlantic and north Pacific; around its neck above the Arctic Circle off Norway, in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands. The interior lines were jammed: jammed with soldiers moving up on German and Russian railroads and highways, jammed with little men slipping down the south China Sea and through the southern straits to the Indies and east toward India...
...patient was suspected of heart disease. But, because she was fat, female and modest, the doctor could not put his ear to her chest-and how else could he listen to her heart? Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and held it against her chest. The heart noises came through perfectly to his respectfully distant...
Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...
...diagnose chest diseases, doctors listen for rattling sounds which Laënnec called râles. Patients with early or late pneumonia have a crackling sound like hair being rubbed through the fingers. Tuberculosis can sometimes be spotted early in its course by a similar sound, which may later change to a clear, metallic ring...