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XIPHOID PROCESS

• XIPHOID PROCESS (noun)
The noun XIPHOID PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. smallest of the three parts of the breastbone; articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib

Familiarity information: XIPHOID PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

• XIPHOID PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Smallest of the three parts of the breastbone; articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("xiphoid process" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("xiphoid process" is a part of...):

breastbone; sternum (the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs)

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