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====Landmarks==== The anatomy of the chest can also be described through the use of [[anatomical landmark]]s. The [[nipple]] in the male is situated in front of the fourth rib or a little below; vertically it lies a little external to a line drawn down from the middle of the [[clavicle]]; in the female it is not so constant. A little below it the lower limit of the great pectoral muscle is seen running upward and outward to the axilla; in the female this is obscured by the [[breast]], which extends from the second to the sixth rib vertically and from the edge of the sternum to the mid-axillary line laterally. The female nipple is surrounded for half an inch by a more or less pigmented disc, the [[areola]]. The apex of a normal heart is in the fifth left intercostal space, three and a half inches from the mid-line.
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