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  • An unresponsive subject should be righted immediately, and the integrator should deliver a sub-xyphoid thrust to expel the water.

    Bring the Bush-Cheney War Criminal Gang to Justice Jim Horn 2009

  • (Edited for clarification - this was cut down to at least my xyphoid process, maybe lower, so it's not like I could wear it just for a fancy workday!)

    Renewal kittenpie 2007

  • An unresponsive subject should be righted immediately, and the integrator should deliver a sub-xyphoid thrust to expel the water.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • (Edited for clarification - this was cut down to at least my xyphoid process, maybe lower, so it's not like I could wear it just for a fancy workday!)

    Archive 2007-11-01 kittenpie 2007

  • If you say the pain is an inch to left and two inches above the xyphoid process and slightly closer to the back than the front of the chest, they SHOULD be able to locate it from that.

    Dreams, doings: spiderweb punk satchels, kimono postcards and margaritas Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • · Introduce the needle to the left of the xyphoid process at an angle of 45° to the skin.

    Chapter 5 1989

  • The difference between the perpendicular range of the anterior and posterior walls of the thoracic cavity may be estimated on a reference to Plate 25, in which the xyphoid cartilage, E, joined to the seventh pair of ribs, bounds its anterior wall below, while F, the pillars of the diaphragm, bound its posterior wall.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The perpendicular depth of the thorax, measured anteriorly, ranges from A, the top of the sternum, to F, the xyphoid cartilage.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The band itself was chiefly a coalescence of the xyphoid cartilages, surrounded by areolar tissue and skin (Fig. 34).

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The band itself was chiefly a coalescence of the xyphoid cartilages, surrounded by areolar tissue and skin.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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