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

If the apical bud is removed, then the axillary buds will start forming lateral branches.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Smooth; stems trailing and creeping; leaves roundish, small, short-petioled; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered; divisions of the corolla broadly ovate, obtuse, longer than the lance-ovate calyx-lobes and stamens.—Escaped from gardens into damp ground in some places.

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