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Sword-shaped, in anatomy
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xiphoid
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Word definitions for xiphoid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Xiphoid \Xiph"oid\ (?; 277), a. [Gr. ? sword-shaped; xi`fos a sword + ? form, shape: cf. F. xiphoide.] (Anat.) Like a sword; ensiform. Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Shaped like a sword, ensiform. 2 Of or relating to the xiphisternum. n. (context anatomy English) The xiphoid process.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sword-shaped," 1746, from Greek xiphos "a sword," of unknown origin (Klein suggests a Semitic source and compares Hebrew sayif , Arabic sayf ) + -oid .
Usage examples of xiphoid.
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 girl was healthy and well developed, and from the middle line of her body between the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, attached by a soft pedicle, was an accessory individual, irregular, of ovoid shape, the smaller end, representing the head, being upward.
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.
Under the smashed xiphoid, she saw the pulse of the bluish-brown pericardial sac, streaked with fat.
He felt the sternum, made sure of the location of the cartilaginous xiphoid process at the sternum's end, so as not to bruise the liver or spring the ribs loose-then.
Adam's apple, the other to the nerve cluster just above his xiphoid process.