When the lung on the affected side of the chest collapses, the heart, blood vessels, and airways are pushed to the centre of the chest, thereby compressing the other lung.
But I think it's actually best explained thusly: It's like being suffocated by the constriction of a giant boa snake, a crushing limitation and inevitable ending that you can't muster breath to scream about, arms stuck at your side, chest collapsing.
When we shoulder press, we all overextend our backs at the top, and during the front squats, our chests collapse forward.
Don't let your chest collapse as you keep the feather in the air.
(S/NF) Suddenly, Yang clutched his chest and collapsed to the ground, suffering a massive coronary.
This is something I discovered when my dad caught me having a roll-up in the shed once and made me smoke a whole phone book until my chest cavity collapsed.
Amal K. Obaid, a surgeon who tended to many victims, said: "They have head injuries, multiple facial fractures, chest trauma, collapsed lungs, rib fractures, pelvic fractures, leg and arm fractures, cuts in the skin and soft tissue.
He spends a mere paragraph on what is probably the book's most cinematic moment, when on the third day of the trials in Phillips County, George Murphy, a white, 79-year-old ex-Confederate soldier hired by the N.A.A.C.P. to act as the lead attorney while Jones labored on the details, "clutched his chest and collapsed to the floor".
An acute heart attack victim is popularly described as experiencing sudden excruciating chest pain, clutching onto one's chest, and collapsing.
The blood shift prevents the chest from collapsing.
