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

Even humans are thought to respond to certain pheromones called axillary steroids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

A large nerve from this plexus is the radial nerve from which the axillary nerve branches to go to the armpit region.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Stamens 4, included, erect, distant.—Coarse aromatic annual, with small flowers in panicled and axillary racemes.

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