chicken-breasted

/'tʃikin,brestid/

Thân thiện

A young boy with a chicken-breasted chest stands in a doctor's office.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a chest deformity characterized by a projecting breastbone: This medical term describes a physical condition where the sternum (breastbone) protrudes abnormally, often as a result of infantile rickets, a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency affecting bone development.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The old medical textbook described the child as chicken-breasted due to severe malnutrition.
  • A chicken-breasted appearance can be a telltale sign of historical cases of rickets.

Advanced Usage

• Medical/Descriptive Context: The term is primarily used in historical or descriptive medical contexts to detail a specific physical manifestation of a nutritional disease. It is considered a dated clinical descriptor.
  • The anthropologist noted the chicken-breasted skeletal remains, suggesting a population afflicted by nutritional deficiencies.

Variants and Related Words

• Pectus carinatum (n): The modern medical term for a protruding breastbone, of which a "chicken-breasted" appearance is one type.
  • Pectus carinatum is sometimes colloquially referred to as pigeon chest or a chicken-breasted condition.

Synonyms

• Pigeon-chested: A more common colloquial synonym describing a similar protruding chest deformity.

Notes on Meaning

• The term is highly specific and not used in everyday language. It refers strictly to a physical deformity and should be used with sensitivity, as it describes a medical condition.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having a chest deformity marked by a projecting breastbone caused by infantile rickets

Từ đồng nghĩa

• pigeon-breasted