PECTUS EARINATUM
\pˈɛktəs ˌi͡əɹɪnˈɑːtəm], \pˈɛktəs ˌiəɹɪnˈɑːtəm], \p_ˈɛ_k_t_ə_s ˌiə_ɹ_ɪ_n_ˈɑː_t_ə_m]\
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chicken-breast or pigeon-breast; undue prominence of sternum.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.