Thoracoplasty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Surgical removal of part of the ribs to cause the collapse of a diseased lung.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Surgery of the chest, usually involving removal of ribs.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Removal of a section of one or more ribs for the cure of a fistula of the chest-wall following empyema.
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