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axilla

[ak-sil-uh] / ækˈsɪl ə /
NOUN
armpit
Synonyms
WEAK


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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

Supposing the arm to have been inoculated, the lymphatic glands of the axilla now become swollen and tender, but their suppuration is unusual, and is to be regarded as a complication.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Intense brown and black pigment forms fine reticulations delimiting bold blue spots on the flanks; this coloration extends to the axilla in many specimens.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman

It is a familiar fact that the difference of temperature in cholera when taken in the rectum and the axilla may be 4° F., or even more than this.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In most cases the heat in the axilla exceeds 103°, and may even mount up to 105°.

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

All the cows and the servants employed in milking had the cow-pox; but this woman, though she had several sores upon her fingers, felt no tumours in the axillae, nor any general indisposition.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Ash reported the case of a girl named Annie Jackson, living in Waterford, Ireland, who had horny excrescences from her joints, arms, axillae, nipples, ears, and forehead.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Another remedy from Journal of Nursing is this: "Zinc oxide" applied to axillae twice a week, after bathing at night, will dissipate the odor.

From Making Good on Private Duty by Harriet Camp Lounsbery

There was some hair in the axillae and on the pubes, but only the slightest down on the scalp, and even that was absent on the skin.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle




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