Epigastric angle
The epigastric angle ( angulus infrasternalis ) is formed by the meeting of the right and left costal arches at the sword process ( processus xiphoideus sterni ), it is normally about 80 °.
The German name is derived from the epigastrium , which roughly describes the area from the navel to the costal arch above and thus lies in the interior of the angle.
literature
- Walther Graumann, Dieter Sasse: Compact textbook anatomy . Schattauer Verlag 2003, ISBN 3794520629 , pp. 53, 84 ( excerpt in the Google book search)