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Definition of 'flail chest' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  flail chest
A complication of multiple rib fractures, rib and sternum fractures, or thoracic surgery. A portion of the chest wall becomes isolated from the thoracic cage and exhibits paradoxical respiration.

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