axilla
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The temperature in the axilla is normally about half a degree lower than in the mouth.
From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by American Red Cross
These glands are found in different parts of the body, but are most numerous in the groins, axilla, or arm-pits, neck, and cavities of the chest and abdomen.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
He had a little pain in the axilla, and felt a slight indisposition for three or four hours.
From An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox by Edward Jenner
Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Ventrolateral glands well developed, reaching axilla and groin and narrowly separated on chest.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions?"
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
You specify the axillae and the front region of the chest and lower part of scapulae: now, these are all hairy spots in man.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Hare describes a woman of thirty-seven who secreted normal milk from her axillae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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