chest thump

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• chest-thump|ing — «CHEHST THUHM pihng», noun. boasting: »Heaven knows, we ve done enough chest thumping for one ad (New Yorker) …   Useful english dictionary

• thump — thump1 [θʌmp] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: From the sound] 1.) [T] informal to hit someone very hard with your hand closed ▪ If you don t shut up, I m going to thump you! ▪ She thumped the table with her fist. 2.) [I,T always + adverb/preposition] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• thump — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ heavy, loud ▪ dull, muffled, soft VERB + THUMP ▪ give sb/sth (BrE) …   Collocations dictionary

• chest — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ barrel, big, broad, huge, manly, massive, muscled, muscular, powerful, strong ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Precordial thump — A precordial thump is a medical procedure used in the initial response to a witnessed cardiac arrest when no defibrillator is immediately available. It can be used as a small part of the provision of advanced cardiac life support (ACLS). About… …   Wikipedia

• precordial thump — a thump delivered directly to the chest wall over the heart as the first stage in treatment of a cardiac arrest if the arrest has been witnessed (i.e. just happened) and monitored (i.e. diagnosis is immediately confirmed). The shock in that early …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Präkordialer Faustschlag — Der präkordiale Faustschlag ist ein Form der Kardioversion, die bei der Herz Lungen Wiederbelebung versucht werden kann, um den bestehenden Kreislaufstillstand zu durchbrechen. Die mechanische Energie des Schlages soll dabei in elektrische… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• thumpversion — thump·ver·sion (thump vurґzhən) delivery of one or two blows to the chest in initiating cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in order to initiate a pulse or to convert ventricular fibrillation to a normal rhythm …   Medical dictionary

• Commotio cordis — Classification and external resources Human adult thorax, showing the outline of the heart (in red). The sensitive zone for mechanical induction of heart rhythm disturbances lies between the 2nd and the 4th ribs, to the left of the sternum …   Wikipedia

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• Palpitation — SignSymptom infobox Name = Palpitation Caption = DiseasesDB = 29231 ICD10 = ICD10|R|00|2|r|00 ICD9 = ICD9|785.1 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = 003081 eMedicineSubj = aaem eMedicineTopic = 337 MeshID = A palpitation (medical term: ectopic heart beat) …   Wikipedia