| The patients characteristically have long, thin extremities, arachnoidactyli, dolicocephaly, with a narrow face and pectus excavatum. |
| The under side of the thorax is frequently spoken of by writers, in describing butterflies, as the pectus, or breast. |
| His breathing was exacerbated by a condition called pectus excavatum. |
| Alternatively, some patients develop pectus carinatum, where the chest protrudes abnormally. |
| World-class surgeons descended on the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff last week to conduct Britain's first pectus carinatum operation. |
| The first can result in a tall stature with long slim limbs, pectus carinatum, muscle hypotonia and joint hypermobility. |
