Costoxiphoid ligament

Costoxiphoid ligament
Ligament: Costoxiphoid ligament
Latin ligamenta costoxiphoidea
From costal cartilage
To xiphoid process of the sternum
Dorlands/Elsevier l_09/12492060

The Costoxiphoid ligaments are inconstant strand-like fibrous bands that cross obliquely from the anterior surface of the seventh (and sometimes of the sixth) costal cartilage to the anterior surface (and sometimes to the posterior surface) of the xiphoid process of the sternum.

v · d · eJoints and ligaments of torso (TA A03.02–04, GA 3.299)
Vertebral
Of vertebral bodies

median: Cruciate ligament of atlas (Transverse ligament of atlas) · Alar ligament · Apical ligament of dens · Tectorial membrane of atlanto-axial joint

lateral: no ligaments

anterior atlantoaxial ligament · posterior atlantoaxial ligament
no ligaments
Lumbosacral
Thorax
Radiate ligament · Intra-articular ligament
no ligaments
no ligaments
Pelvis
Syndesmoses of pelvic girdle

M: JNT

anat(h/c, u, t, l)/phys

noco(arth/defr/back/soft)/cong, sysi/epon, injr

proc, drug(M01C, M4)

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