axilla
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They are confined to no part of the body, but appear usually earliest and most abundantly upon the folds of the axilla and upon the abdomen.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A pressure made on the brachial vein and its branches by scirrhous glands in the axilla, is a common cause of this state.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Mrs. D., aged thirty-six, prolonged suppuration due to abscess of the axilla; nine months' standing.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
The thermometer seldom shows a temperature above 105°, but I have seen 106.5° recorded in the axilla in the hot stage of a paroxysm of simple intermittent fever.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In the cold stage it is not uncommon for a difference of temperature to be noted of nearly ten degrees between the axilla and the rectum.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The posterior part of the trunk, the axillae, the sclerotic coats of the eyes, the nails, and the skin of the head remained in their natural state and preserved their natural color.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The arms inflamed properly, fever and pain in the axillae came on precisely the same as in the former cases, and in ten days eruptions appeared, which disappeared in the course of two days.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
During menstruation, hyperidrosis of the axillae diffuses an aromatic odor similar to that of acids or chloroform, and in suppression of menses, according to the Ephemerides, the odor is as of hops.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Gardiner describes a mulatto woman who had four mammae, two of which were near the axillae, about four inches in circumference, with proportionate sized nipples.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
