"First" railroad station in Man-Chest-er, a city like a treasure chest as well as a coffin of current and expired, technologies.		Anterior to the ear opening is the TRAGUS, a name derived from TRAGedy.

During a review of TRAGus, exploring reasons to so name this insignificant cartilage in front of the ear opening, we uncovered DRAG, DRACo or DRAGon. This discovery illuminated eSTRAgo or havoc which is linked to STRAta or debris and led to STERN, STERNum, CHEST, THORAX, BREATH and BREAST.

BREAST implies protuberance or being forward, a characteristic of CHEST, MAMMAry glands and other prominent structures such as military "breast works", breastbones and breast plates. Also, leaders who need to remain popular must stay "abreast" of popular opinion.

Breast refers to hard Chest and soft Bosom.

BREAST conveys ideas of "hard" but it also can conveys ideas of "soft" when referring to mature mamillary milk glands or Bosom.

The respiratory cage is composed of ribs stiffened by a stern sternum.

Anatomically, the CHEST is rigid in contrast to a collapsible bag. The link of "chest" with "hard" is most evident in Ukrainian words such as HRYDY, HRAN, HRAD, HRUDA, HRUDEN for chest, grain, hailstone and hardened ground which mostly occurs during December. Shifting from HRA to GRA points to "hard" ideas in words like GRAin, GRAm, GRAphic, among many other words conveying "hardness".

Regarding soft BREAST or BOSOM or the cleavage between mature mammary glands, the landscape is particlarly well defined in Spanish. SENo and eSENada in Spanish refer to soft breasts on the costal or rib cage and safe coastal places like bays, coves, gulfs and other sorts of inlets. It is self evident that breastfed infants when "harbored" between maternal SENOS or breasts feel quite safe. Perhaps, poets would agree that the harsh nature of rocky coasts may be softened by bays or eSENADAS just like the costal hardness of a maternal chest is soften by the SENOS. Incidentally, COAST and COSTAL share kindred ideas.

Breast, Bust, and Bosom.

The ancients likened the rib cage or thorax with a "comb" or basket composed by ribs stiffened by a STERN STERNum anchoring their anterior ends. At first, the STERnum is cartilagenous but with aging, STRAta of bone may emerge and harden the HRUD or chest to become like a HRUDA or CLOD. Notably, CLOD or CLOT point to "hardened". Hardened people may use the term CLOD to stigmatize those they consider unduly clumsy. To continue on a lighter note, hard cheeses are made from CLOTed milk hardened by aging. The impact on the cardiovascular contents of the CHESts of CHEESe lovers should be a matter of concern.

Chest wounds that allow air to enter into the thorax cause a pneumothorax which until recent times was mostly fatal.

In IndoEuropean, PEKTOS means COMB, edge or ridge, which is a characteristic of the breast plate or sternum of many birds. In Latin and Spanish, PECTO, PECHO and PEINE denote thorax, rake and comb. In Ukrainian HREB, HREBIN, HREBLA and HRUD also denote fork, comb, ridge and chest. In the sense of edge or ridge, the cock and other male birds often have heads decoraded by a COMB or a colorul ridge, a feature envied and formerly copied by cocky warriors.

Pectus excavatum (concave sternum).

The shape of the chest or ESCUCHEON is like a shield or SCUTus or eSCUDo in Latin and Spanish. Unduly prominent or sunken breastbones or sterna reflect deformations of the eSTUCheon. In medical parlance, PECTUS CARINATUM describes keel or CARINA like chests and PECTUS EXCAVATUM those who are sunken.

THORAX is grounded in KHORonyty, KHARayati and DAR, ancient roots for "burial" "hold" and "gift". Thorax also points to modern coffers, coffins and chests . A poetic but more speculative vista links THORAX with THOLUS which refers to concave "vaults" or tombs. This view is concordant with HRUD, HRUNT, HRABAR and HRIB which in Ukrainian convey ideas of prominence, chest, ground, undertaker and tomb.

Regarding CHEST as in "chestnut", the term combines ideas about "hard" with "hazel" or hazelnut or brown, beige and mahogany colorations.

With RESPect to RESPiration, BREATH and BREAST, perhaps a RESPite is in order. After a REST, the RESTA or what is left concerning INSPIRE and EXPIRE will be offered in another illustrated overview.

Politics, hunting, and crime can be lethal.

Finally, please note that further vistas about bosom, breast, chest and thorax are given in another illustrated overview.