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Pectus may refer to:
- the part of the torso between the neck and the diaphragm
- colloquially, the word is also used for certain deformations of the pectus such as:
- Pectus excavatum, an abnormally concave chest
- Pectus carinatum, an abnormally convex chest
See also
- Pectis, a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family
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