pigeon chest
keeled chest
chicken chest
pectus carinatum latin

Babies are born with a condition called pigeon chest and emphysema.

He folded his arms over his pigeon chest and stared out at the bay.

Neville pulled back his shoulders and thrust out his pigeon chest.

Small Dave puffed out his pigeon chest.

Nothing spectacular in the execution; she just reached into his pigeon chest and crushed his lungs.

This is my brother, thin and pale with Shane's thin arms and pigeon chest.

Miss Monk drew her jacket tight across her pigeon chest and folded her arms.

He was small and wiry, with cauliflower ears, a long misshapen nose, a pigeon chest, ropy arms.

The Sabatier's hilt projected from his pigeon chest and the blade pinned him, without compromise, to the mattress.

The other man was rather shorter and much less prepossessing, with bandy legs and a pigeon chest like the prow of a canoe.

We also have bow legs, Roman noses, pigeon chests, not to mention German measles, chicken pox, and crow's feet.

Porta was sitting upright in the straw clawing at his dirty, thin pigeon chest, his red mane standing out in all directions.

Mild pectus carinatum ("pigeon chest")

Flexing his rounded shoulders and puffing out his pigeon chest he downed the 'gold watch' with a practised wrist-flick and prepared himself to face the day.

It introduces contrast when coupled with shadow, and, by illumination, highlights key aspects of the scene; this is particularly seen by the light that falls across Bonaparte's pigeon chest.

Maddened by terror, the would-be attackers dived under his arms, but not before one of them had sunk his knife up to the hilt in Windle's pigeon chest.

Abnormalities of the rib cage include pectus excavatum ("sunken chest") and pectus carinatum ("pigeon chest").

Nobby vibrated with soldierly bearing, hands thrust straight down by his sides, thumbs pointing sharply forward, pigeon chest inflated so much that his feet were in danger of leaving the ground.

As his withered claw-like fingers released the deadly vessel, Gandang rose silently behind him and drove his assegai between the witchdoctor's bony shoulder blades and out of his pigeon chest.

Marfan's sufferers tend towards being taller than average, with a long, thin face, and elongated skull, overgrown ribs, a funnel or pigeon chest, and larger pelvis, with enlarged thighs and spindly calves.

Then, a considerably older and wiser man, he hurled the machine he had bought into a corner and there it had languished ever since, staring at Toss contemptuously and whispering, 'Nice body tone, Pigeon Chest.

The old man laughed so hard that I thought his chicken chest would explode.