Precordial

A notch on the downstroke of the right precordial QRS complex is sometimes the tip off. ❋ James Gaulte (2007)

The heart's apex beat in the sixth interspace in the nipple line, and the precordial dulness was somewhat increased. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

In other cases the precordial region was crossed, but I never witnessed any serious effect on the heart's action in any such injury at the time the patients came under my notice. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

And that soft reply -- how covered with kisses, how worn in that pocket of the coat in which it can feel the beatings of the precordial region! ❋ Various (N/A)

I had once before felt a little precordial agitation, but compared with this it was nothing. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Again, death may result instantaneously from wounds of the precordial region, or according to Erichsen, if held directly over the heart, from the discharge of a pistol containing powder alone, a result occasionally seen after a blow on the precordial region. ❋ Unknown (1896)

In aggravated cases, the patient may suffer from shortness of breath on exertion, and the respiratory difficulty may react on the heart, causing dilatation of the right side, palpitation, and precordial pain. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

One unaccustomed to the use of bonga and chewing it for the first time, usually experiences a most disagreeable combination of symptoms; constriction of the oesophagus, a sensation of heat in the head and face, the latter becoming red and congested; at the same time dizziness and precordial distress are experienced. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

It should therefore be proscribed in persons who present symptoms of gastro-intestinal or of heart disease, and in every patient who complains of slight precordial pains, commonly attributed to flatus, but in reality cardiac neuralgia, a fugitive symptom announcing the possibility of that grave accident, angina pectoris, capable of ending the life of the patient with one stroke. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

In such instances the heart may beat heavily, the respiration be irregular and attended by precordial oppression, giddiness, weakness, and physical inability to articulate a word or recall a thought. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

"Should I thump him," said Heckman, referring to the precordial hand thump on the chest, which doesn't always work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Darwin often referred his "palpitations", which might have been an arrhythmia; episodes of precordial pain, however, are not often mentioned and no shortness of breath or fluid retention was ever noted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unstable angina is defined as "precordial pain at rest, which may precede a myocardial infarction". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Darwin often referred his "palpitations", which might have been an arrhythmia; but precordial pain is not often mentioned and no shortness of breath or fluid retention was ever noted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ALS The method of defibrilation Precordial thump If an electrical defibrillator is not immediately available, a precordial thump should be employed. ❋ Unknown (2009)