chest rub
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English
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Noun
[edit]chest rub (plural chest rubs)
- (emergency medicine) A form of applying pain to the sternum of the patient wherein the responder applies strong pressure with his knuckles in an attempt to establish the patient's level of consciousness.
- It looked like this muscular fireman was hurting my grandmother applying a chest rub as he attended to her fainting but later we understood he was just trying to get her to come to.
- A topical medication applied to the chest in the hope of alleviating the symptoms of a cold.