A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

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A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by Dr Exile » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:21 pm

This morning Ash was tickling the hair on my chest and said something about xiphoid process. I was too scared to ask what kind of horrible disease it is. I guess I'm going to croak.
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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by TraumaT » Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:29 pm

Good news is that it only hurts for a moment.

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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by TraumaT » Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:10 pm

OK, OK, I suppose that pic was over the top.... Sorry, sorry!!!! This is what happens when I'm bored. Damn stupid rain.

And you just have a perfectly normal bone in your chest, Exile, hahahaha.

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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by itai » Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:20 pm

i liked that picture. its what i picture tape worms to be like.

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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by TraumaT » Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:10 pm

itai wrote:i liked that picture. its what i picture tape worms to be like.
You are so young and I am ancient, so just in case you don't know, it is from the movie "Alien" (1979). ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/

Great movie from the old days, hahaha.

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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by Pam » Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:15 pm

The xiphoid process, or xiphisternum or metasternum, is a small cartilaginous process (extension) of the lower part of the sternum which is 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. In newborn babies and young (especially slender) infants, the tip of the xiphoid process may be both seen and felt as a lump just below the sternal notch.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiphoid_process

Had to google it :D

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Re: A Dreadful Disease (I may be dying)

Post by Dr Exile » Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:25 pm

Whew!
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