axillary
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Mr Flack said that transection of the left axillary artery – the main artery to the arm – was also a contributory cause to her death.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024
More than one-third of patients who underwent axillary dissection were found to have additional metastases than the maximum two in the sentinel lymph nodes.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
Apocrine sweat glands in the axillary and genital areas release fatty secretions that local bacteria break down; this causes body odor.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The basilic vein continues through the arm medially and superficially to the axillary vein.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Capsule membranaceous, circumscissile, the top falling off like a lid, many-seeded.—Low, spreading or procumbent herbs, mostly annuals, with opposite or whorled entire leaves, and solitary flowers on axillary peduncles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
