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
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
A large nerve from this plexus is the radial nerve from which the axillary nerve branches to go to the armpit region.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Creeping extensively, roughish, green; leaves oblanceolate or wedge-spatulate, serrate above; peduncles axillary, slender, exceeding the leaves, bearing solitary closely bracted heads of bluish-white flowers; bracts mucronate or pointless.—River-banks,
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
