See Also: flail chest(medicine)
Flail chest(health)
flail(2)(dictionary)
flail(1)(dictionary)
flail(medicine)
flail 1, verb(dictionary)
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flail joint(medicine)
flail 2, noun(dictionary)
War chest(money)

media (oh) and Flail chest (health)


media (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Plural of MEDIUM2]
the media
all the organizations, such as Television, Radio, and newspapers, that provide news and information for the public, or the people who do this work
::The scandal was widely reported in the national media .
::The role of the news media in forming public opinion is very important.
::The 11-day trial generated intense media interest .
::A great deal of media hype surrounded the release of the group's latest CD.
::There will be another war somewhere else and the whole international media circus will move on.
the plural of medium
-see also mass media , multimedia
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
the national/local media
the news media
media attention/coverage/interest/speculation
media hype (=when the media give something too much attention, and try to make it seem much more important or better than it really is)
media event (=an event that the media gives a lot of attention to)
media circus (=a disapproving word for all the people from the media who report events, and all the attention they give to these events)

Flail chest (health)


When enough ribs are broken (usually from a crush injury) to compromise the rigidity of the chest wall. On inspiration, the chest wall moves inward instead of outward and the opposite on expiration.