chest wall

Definition

Subdivision of thorax which includes all structures from the skin to the costal pleura. Examples: There is only one chest wall.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• anterior chest wall
• left lateral chest wall
• right lateral chest wall
• superficial chest wall
• thoracic wall

Neighbouring structures

• anterior chest
• diaphragm
• posterior chest

Identifiers

FMA

50060

UBERON

0016435

Wikidata

Q66539261