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Pectoral   Listen
noun
Pectoral  n.  
1.
A covering or protecting for the breast.
2.
(Eccl.)
(a)
A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
(b)
A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
3.
A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.





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"Pectoral" Quotes from Famous Books



... over-anxious parents or nurses, who continually endeavour to prevent infants crying do them a material injury; for, by such imprudent management, their children seldom or never acquire a perfect form of the breast, while the foundation is laid in the pectoral vessels for ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... understand no more then only to write to a whole-sale Apothecary in your City. And truly their couzenages here in the Country do exceed those in the City. For I have known 2s. 6d. taken for a little Plaster of Galbanum, and it is usual to make one pectoral Syrup serve for all; as having occasion to enquire for Syrup of Jujubs, one of them ingenuously confessed (not knowing what Jujubs were) that he used one pectoral Syrup for all, a little varying the colour sometimes, ...
— A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries • Christopher Merrett
... managed to catch one at about a hundred yards from the ship; he had taken the precaution to block up its hole of refuge so that it was at the mercy of the hunters. It took several bullets to kill the animal, which measured nine feet in length; its bulldog head, the sixteen teeth in its jaws, its large pectoral fins in the shape of pinions, and its little tail, furnished with another pair of fins, made it a good specimen of the family of dog-hound fish. The doctor, wishing to preserve the head for his natural history collection, and its skin for his future use, had ...
— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Pectoral" :   thorax, striated muscle, pecs, adornment, pectus, pectoral sandpiper, pectoral medallion, thoracic, pectoral fin, chest, pectoral vein, pectoralis minor, pectoral muscle, pectoral girdle, pectoral arch, musculus pectoralis minor, greater pectoral muscle, pectoralis major, musculus pectoralis major


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