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XIPHOID

\zˈɪfɔ͡ɪd], \zˈɪfɔ‍ɪd], \z_ˈɪ_f_ɔɪ_d]\

Definitions of XIPHOID

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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Sword-shaped, ensiform; noting the cartilaginous process, shaped like a sword-tip, forming the lower extremity of the sternum; the xiphoid or ensiform cartilage or process, meta-sternum, processus xiphoideus.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Resembiing shape of a sword.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

Pertaining to a small cartilage placed at the bottom of the breast bone; ensiform.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

In anat., sword-shaped; ensiform; a term applied to the cartilage of the sternum.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

Sword-shaped; ensiform.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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