area of cardiac dullness

1. 1.

   a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs

   Broaderarea

   Part ofthorax

Questions about area of cardiac dullness

What does area of cardiac dullness mean?

area of cardiac dullness means "a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion); corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs".

Is area of cardiac dullness a common word?

area of cardiac dullness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.