axillary

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The subclavian artery continues toward the arm as the axillary artery.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

—Shrubs or trees, with entire leaves, and small flowers in axillary clustered umbels.

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