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)
After the xiphoid process and linea alba are dissected and divided, only the body of sternum is cut vertically.
The incision was started at the xiphoid process and continued to the sterno-manubrial junction.
The right leaflet is the largest, the middle, directed toward the xiphoid process, the next in size, and the left the smallest.
There is a small raised plane caused by projection of xiphoid appendage sometimes observable at lower end of sternum.
It is also said to lie roughly a hand's breadth beneath the xiphoid process of the human sternum.
At the front, fibres emerge from behind the xiphoid process and the cartilages of the floating ribs, ribs 7-12.
It extends from the sternal notch to the xiphoid process.
A typical human rib cage consists of 24 ribs, the sternum (with xiphoid process), costal cartilages, and the 12 thoracic vertebrae.
