Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a sword.
- adjective Of or relating to the xiphoid process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like or resembling a sword; ensiform.
- The telson of a crustacean, as the king-crab. See cut under
horseshoe-crab . - noun The ensiform or xiphoid cartilage in man, or its representative in other animals. See
xiphisternum , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a sword; ensiform.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
sword ,ensiform . - adjective Of, or relating to the
xiphisternum . - noun anatomy The
xiphoid process .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Feel just beneath the sternum and find a tiny bone called xiphoid process.
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I'm guessing most people don't know where their xiphoid is and, fortunately, it doesn't come up much in conversation.
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The lump turned out to be a normal part of his sternum (breastbone), a small piece of cartilage called the xiphoid.
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The lump turned out to be a normal part of his sternum (breastbone), a small piece of cartilage called the xiphoid.
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The lump turned out to be a normal part of his sternum (breastbone), a small piece of cartilage called the xiphoid.
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Another diagonal slash ran from the left shoulder and met the first slash at the xiphoid.
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One slash ran from the right shoulder, diagonally through the breast, to the xiphoid process.
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Another diagonal slash ran from the left shoulder and met the first slash at the xiphoid.
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One slash ran from the right shoulder, diagonally through the breast, to the xiphoid process.
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Using the bony protrusion of the xiphoid process as her landmark, she pierced the skin and angled the needle tip straight toward the heart.
reesetee commented on the word xiphoid
Sword-shaped.
June 5, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word xiphoid
As in xiphoid process.
October 21, 2007