In the median line this border is situated on the average about midway between the base of the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, but within the limits of health it may extend nearly to the umbilicus.
With cancer of the cardia it is often referred to the point of the xiphoid cartilage or behind the sternum.
It is usually accompanied with painful sensations near the xiphoid cartilage or behind the sternum, or sometimes in the pharynx.
Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.
Immediately behind these surfaces the sides are produced into a pair of long backwardly-projecting =xiphoid processes= which nearly meet processes from the posterior end of the sternum.
Passing between the xiphoid and costal origins in front are the superior epigastric arteries, while the other terminal branches of the internal mammaries, the musculo-phrenics, pass through between two costal origins.
The xiphoid appendix, which is cartilaginous, is attached to the extremity of a long process of the last bone of the sternum.
The constricting band was formed by a coalition of the xiphoid cartilages and the umbilical vessels, surrounded by areolar tissue and covered with skin.
The circumference of the abdomen was six feet four inches, and the distance from the xiphoid to the os pubis measured four feet 1/2 inch.
Swingler speaks of two girls joined at the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, the band of union being 1 1/2 inches thick, and running below the middle of it was the umbilical cord, common to both.
The postmortem examination showed that the ball had pierced the sternum just above the xiphoid cartilage, and had entered the pericardium to the right and at the lower part.
An incision 14 inches in length was first made in the linea alba, below the umbilicus, and afterward extended up to the xiphoid cartilage.
The distance from the xiphoid to the symphysis pubis was three feet.
Archer tells of a man who was stabbed by a negro, the knife entering the cartilages of the 4th rib on the right side, and penetrating the stomach to the extent of two inches at a point about two inches below the xiphoid cartilage.
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