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An x-ray image of the human chest (5).
Old English ċest ‘box’ < Germanic *kistā < Latin cista < Ancient Greek κίστη ‘chest, box, basket, hamper’. Cognates from Germanic include Dutch kist, German Kiste.
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chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- A chest of drawers.
- (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
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strong box
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- Italian: cassa it(it), cassapanca it(it)
- Norwegian: kiste no(no)
- Old English: ċest ang(ang) f.
- Polish: kufer m., skrzynia f.
- Portuguese: baú pt(pt) m.
- Russian: сундук (sundúk) m.; ящик (jáščik) m.
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: кутија f., шкриња f., ковчег m.
- Roman: kutija f., škrinja f., kovčeg m.
- Sicilian: cascia f.
- Slovak: debna f., truhla f.
- Spanish: arca es(es) f., baúl es(es) m.
- Swahili: kifua sw(sw)
- Turkish: sandık tr(tr), kutu tr(tr), kasa tr(tr)
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thorax
- Afrikaans: bors af(af)
- Albanian: gjoks sq(sq) m.
- Arabic: صدر ar(ar) (Sadr) m.
- Armenian: կրծքավանդակ hy(hy) (krçk’avandak), կուրծք hy(hy) (kurçk’)
- Basque: torax eu(eu)
- Bosnian: grudi bs(bs) f.
- Bulgarian: гръден кош bg(bg) m.
- Catalan: tòrax ca(ca) m.
- Chamicuro: tu'lu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胸 cmn(cmn) (xiōng), 胸部 cmn(cmn) (xiōngbù), 胸膛 cmn(cmn) (xiōngtáng)
- Croatian: prsa hr(hr) f.
- Czech: hruď cs(cs) f.
- Dutch: romp nl(nl) m., torso nl(nl) m., thorax nl(nl) m., borst nl(nl) f.
- Esperanto: brusto eo(eo)
- Finnish: rinta fi(fi), rintakehä fi(fi)
- French: poitrine fr(fr) f.
- German: Brust de(de) f.
- Greek: στήθος el(el) (stíthos) n., στέρνο el(el) (stérno) n., θώρακας el(el) (thórakas) m.
- Hebrew: חזה (khaze) m.
- Hungarian: mellkas hu(hu)
- Icelandic: bringa is(is) f.
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: petto it(it) m., torace it(it), polmoni it(it) pl.
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