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

Gardeners make use of this fact when they prune plants by cutting off the tops of branches, thus encouraging the axillary buds to grow out, giving the plant a bushy shape.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The cephalic vein begins in the antebrachium and drains blood from the superficial surface of the arm into the axillary vein.

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