. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . pushed several inches to the right; it lies between theright sternal and parasternal lines, on a level with the tip of the xiphoidcartilage. Obrastzow ^ divides the space between the navel and the xiphoid carti-lage into three equal parts, and says that the loioer border of the stomach,both in men and in -women, is in the lower or supra-umbilical third. In children under fifteen years the lower border rarely extends to theumbilical line; after fifty years, on the contrary, it often extends belowthe navel. In conditions o
. A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians . pushed several inches to the right; it lies between theright sternal and parasternal lines, on a level with the tip of the xiphoidcartilage. Obrastzow ^ divides the space between the navel and the xiphoid carti-lage into three equal parts, and says that the loioer border of the stomach,both in men and in -women, is in the lower or supra-umbilical third. In children under fifteen years the lower border rarely extends to theumbilical line; after fifty years, on the contrary, it often extends belowthe navel. In conditions of bad nutrition it falls nearly to the navel. According to Pacanowski and Wagner, the upper border of the stomach, ^ Deutsch. Arch, fiir klin. Medicin., Bd. xliii. 5, 417-456. 522 PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES WITHIN THE ABDOMEN. in the left parasternal Hue, lies at the lower border of the lifth rib <»r inthe fifth intercostal space, rarely at the fourth rib or in the sixth inter-costal space. In the left nipple-line it lies between the fifth interspace Fig. Obrastzows lines: the greater curvature is in the lowest supra-umbilical third. and the sixth rib, occasionally in the fourth interspace or at the seventhrib. In the anterior axillary line it lies at the lower border of the seventhor eighth rib, rarely above the sixth rib, never below the eighth rib. Fig. 189.
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