Feel just beneath the sternum and find a tiny bone called xiphoid process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference

From your xiphoid, trace your rib cage as it continues down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference

Well, now that you know where your xiphoid process is, how about putting it back to work?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference

The lump turned out to be a normal part of his sternum (breastbone), a small piece of cartilage called the xiphoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jon LaPook: Body Language: Knowing Your Parts] Reference

I'm guessing most people don't know where their xiphoid is and, fortunately, it doesn't come up much in conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jon LaPook: Body Language: Knowing Your Parts] Reference

Using the bony protrusion of the xiphoid process as her landmark, she pierced the skin and angled the needle tip straight toward the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

Sense how your collarbone connects to your sternum, how it continues down to the xiphoid process, and how your ribs extend down to your waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference

The distance from the xiphoid to the symphysis pubis was three feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

xiphoid Process (processus xiphoideus; ensiform or xiphoid appendix).    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum] Reference

The inferior border is narrow, and articulates with the xiphoid process.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum] Reference

The xiphoid process is formed by a backward extension of the sternal plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton] Reference

Some fibers are occasionally connected with the costoxiphoid ligaments, and the side of the xiphoid process.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen] Reference

The junction between the body of the sternum and the xiphoid process is on the level of the tenth thoracic vertebra.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 8. Surface Markings of the Abdomen] Reference

From the middle of the sternum the sternal furrow spreads out and ends at the junction of the body with the xiphoid process.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 5. Surface Anatomy of the Thorax] Reference

The right leaflet is the largest, the middle, directed toward the xiphoid process, the next in size, and the left the smallest.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax] Reference

The circumference of the abdomen was six feet four inches, and the distance from the xiphoid to the os pubis measured four feet 1/2 inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

—The linea alba is a tendinous raphé in the middle line of the abdomen, stretching between the xiphoid process and the symphysis pubis.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen] Reference

An incision 14 inches in length was first made in the linea alba, below the umbilicus, and afterward extended up to the xiphoid cartilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

At times the hiatal spasms are extremely violent and painful, the pain being referred from the xiphoid region to the back, or upward into the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

The constricting band was formed by a coalition of the xiphoid cartilages and the umbilical vessels, surrounded by areolar tissue and covered with skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Its middle part lies behind the xiphoid process, and, in the angle between the diverging rib cartilage of opposite sides, is in contact with the abdominal wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver] Reference

In the middle line, it interlaces with the aponeurosis of the opposite muscle, forming the linea alba, which extends from the xiphoid process to the symphysis pubis.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen] Reference

The lower part of the sternum and often the xiphoid process as well are deeply depressed backward, producing an oval hollow in the lower sternal and upper epigastric regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4c. The Costal Cartilages] Reference

A line joining the apex to point (a) and traversing the junction of the body of the sternum with the xiphoid process represents the lowest limit of the heart—its acute margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 6. Surface Markings of the Thorax] Reference

—The xiphoid process is the smallest of the three pieces: it is thin and elongated, cartilaginous in structure in youth, but more or less ossified at its upper part in the adult.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum] Reference

It consists of three parts, named from above downward, the manubrium, the body or gladiolus, and the xiphoid process; in early life the body consists of four segments or sternebrœ.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum] Reference

Swingler speaks of two girls joined at the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, the band of union being 1 1/2 inches thick, and running below the middle of it was the umbilical cord, common to both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Swingler 5.17 speaks of two girls joined at the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, the band of union being 1 1/2 inches thick, and running below the middle of it was the umbilical cord, common to both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

These two bars fuse with each other along the middle line to form the cartilaginous sternum which is ossified from six centers: one for the manubrium, four for the body, and one for the xiphoid process (Fig. 118).    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum] Reference

Between the two Recti the linea alba can be palpated from the xiphoid process to a point just below the umbilicus; it is represented by a distinct dip between the muscles: beyond this the muscles are in apposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 7. Surface Anatomy of the Abdomen] Reference

xiphoid process, 128–29.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jumpstart Your Metabolism] Reference