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

On both the left and right sides, the subclavian vein forms when the axillary vein passes through the body wall from the axillary region.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The slender embryo therefore is horseshoe-shaped; cotyledons filiform.—Flowers white, in small and loose axillary panicles.

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