Talk:Cuirass

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[edit] is it really pronounced queer ass?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.226.28.171 (talk • contribs) 2006-01-20T01:23:00

According to "Cuirass" at Answers.com, it's pronounced "kwi-RASS". Leevclarke (talk) 21:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] needs fixing

-I'd like to add weights and gauge would be very useful in this article to dispel many of the wrong preconceptions fiction has put on armors. Justinian1979 13:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

-This article is quite unintelligible. It is full of odd words. It needs more pictures, more links, and some re-writing. But ready access to the original 1911 Britannica article in pure form needs to be provided! Is such a parallel structure done elsewhere in Wikipedia? There should be links/context to modern use of body armor. 69.87.194.55 13:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation & new separate stub for cuirass medical device?

This article is about the military armor form of a cuirass. However, there is also a modern medical device of the same name. It is discussed in pages such as Iron Lung and Mechanical ventilation, which link to this page, but there does not seem to be any actual discussion of the medical device on this page, nor would it really be appropriate. So perhaps a new Cuirass (medical device) stub should be created, and some kind of disambiguation should be introduced? -JRtx (talk) 15:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)