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Cheekplate Container  
  Special compartment of an exoskeleton; provides easy access to medical supplies related to survive heavy gravity environments.  

Yet another special feature of exoskeletons.

I tongued pep, instant glucose, and antigrav pills out of their cheekplate container into my mouth. Even the tiny dissolving pellets seemed heavy as osmium on my tongue, and they dropped down my throat like bullets. I followed them with a sip of truly heavy water from my other cheekplate, tilting my exoskulled head to do so.
Technovelgy from A Specter is Haunting Texas, by Fritz Leiber.
Published by Galaxy Publishing in 1968
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This idea is a logical extension of the tubes in helmets next to the mouth that astronauts and others in protective suits use for water intake.

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