armpit

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There are two main types of ICD - one is fitted under the skin, usually near the armpit and acts like a mini defibrillator with wires running under the skin to the chest.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Instead, she found a lump in her armpit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

On one video call, Chantelle says, Paloma said she had a new lump in her armpit, and her mother had told her it meant that the cancer was going out of her body.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

“It really changed the notion that we were the armpit of the region.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

What I see first is a picture: the Venus de Milo, in a black-and- white photo, with a mustache and a black brassiere and armpit hair drawn clumsily on her.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood