In stage IIIB breast cancer, a tumor of any size has spread to tissues near the breast the skin and chest muscles and may have spread to lymph nodes within the breast or under the arm.

CNN: Breast cancer staging

The other bullet entered the right upper arm and tracked down a few centimetres under the skin, before exiting the arm and grazing the skin of the chest.

BBC: London

So when the reinnervated skin (on the chest or shoulder, perhaps) is touched, it registers to the patient as a sensation in the missing limb.

ECONOMIST: Rewiring nerves

You'll need to have a skin test for tuberculosis, a chest X-ray and a test for hepatitis B before taking infliximab.

CNN: Ulcerative colitis

By rewiring a missing arm's motor nerves to muscles in the remaining stump, shoulder or chest, for example, and rewiring the arm's sensory nerves to the skin in these regions, a channel is opened to the part of the brain that once controlled the missing limb.

ECONOMIST: Rewiring nerves

When outfits can be a little sexier, Ms. Azria suggests picking one part of your body that you're proud of legs, chest or arms, perhaps and highlighting that. (She believes that baring skin in more than one area doesn't look as sophisticated.) "Show off your best assets, " says Ms. Azria.

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