0 shaped like a sword (= a weapon used in the past with a long, sharp metal blade) --
1 relating to the xiphoid process (= a lower part of the long, flat bone in the centre of the chest) --
One is usually situated at the level of the umbilicus, one at the extremity of the xiphoid process, and the third about midway between the two.
Xiphoid process labeled at bottom.
The inferior angle has a small facet, which, with a corresponding one on the xiphoid process, forms a notch for the cartilage of the seventh rib.
She has been hospitalized twice, had two broken ribs, a broken sternum, and a broken xiphoid process.
Bruising to the abdomen is highly likely and more serious injuries can occur, including fracture of the xiphoid process or ribs.
A typical human rib cage consists of 24 ribs, the sternum (with xiphoid process), costal cartilages, and the 12 thoracic vertebrae.
It extends from the sternal notch to the xiphoid process.
At the front, fibres emerge from behind the xiphoid process and the cartilages of the floating ribs, ribs 7-12.
