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Chicken breast
鸡胸 〔雞胸〕jī xiōng
Also pigeon chest. A deformity in infants in which the chest protrudes at the center, giving it the appearance of a chicken’s breast; hence the name. This condition is attributed to congenital insufficiency and/or poor nourishment after birth and manifests as spleen-kidney depletion and softness of the bones.
Biomedical correspondence: pectus carinatum (pectus gallinatum).
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