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xiphoid process |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002207 |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Gray117.png |
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xiphoid process |
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UBERON:0002207 |
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xiphoid process |
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usually ossified in the adult human. By age 15 to 29, the xiphoid usually fuses to the body of the sternum with a fibrous joint. Unlike the synovial articulation of major joints, this is non-movable. Much the way the first seven ribs articulate with the sternum, the cartilage in the celiac plexus joins on the xiphoid process, reinforcing it, and indirectly attaches the costal cartilage to the sternum. |
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