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

As it passes through the body wall and enters the thorax, the axillary vein becomes the subclavian 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

Flowers axillary, solitary.—A tropical family, excepting the following genus:— 1.

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