(n.) The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) After surgery in the area of the armpit, and particularly after axillary lymphonodectomy during mastectomy, severe pain and paraesthesia can occur in the region of the medial and posterior side of the proximal upper arm.
(2) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.
(3) All the fluids except armpit sweat and gastric juice contained two to five molecular sizes of IR-hEGF.
(4) The 3 cases with poor efficacy consisted of 1 case each of pneumonia complicated with chronic granulomatosis, purulent thyroiditis associated with piriform recess fistula, and purulent lymphadenitis of armpit developed after surgical operation of congenital heart disease.
(5) I've given this some thought, and I think the only thing more risky than whistling during a live performance is doing armpit farts during a performance.
(6) In a randomized, double-blind, half-sided experiment, 30 volunteers were treated in both armpits with aluminium chloride hexahydrate 25% in ethanol.
(7) I watched and can still remember his grimace of discomfort as the needle tore into the soft, unmarked skin beside his armpit.
(8) Sue Deans, a 69-year-old retired teacher and mother of three, was first diagnosed in 2000 with malignant melanoma after the doctor removed a mole and re-diagnosed in 2007 after she discovered a lump under her armpit.
(9) The case history bears on two histologically verified lymphangioma -- in the first case of the soft parts of the right leg, in the second of the soft part of the left thoracic wall, the armpit and the mediastinum.
(10) The day: night cycle was 16:8 and ambient temperature 20-22 degrees C. Skin temperature (ST) in the ankle area and body temperature (BT) in the armpit were measured by thermistors every 16 min during 14 days.
(11) It's a reaction to the fact that a lot of people think feminism is very dull: old, ugly women who haven't had a man for many years [she pulls a sour face], hairy arms [she mimes pulling hair out of her armpits] and hating men, no sexuality.
(12) After the nerve was sectioned, there was increasing anesthesia in the armpit and hypoesthesia on the posterointernal face of the arm, while for the patients in whom the intercostobrachial nerve remained intact, these alterations were less intense and long-lasting.
(13) The degenerative alterations of the big joints and the spine are of a special interest as well as the changes in urine, ear and nose cartilages, scleras and the skin in the armpits.
(14) In order to neutralize pH and thus reduce the skin irritation, post-treatment was performed in one armpit with triethanolamine 50% in ethanol.
(15) Mónica Spear was hit several times through the armpit during the roadside assault.
(16) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
(17) The surface temperature of various organs including the liver and the armpit skeletal muscle were monitored with a special mercury thermometer through a narrow hole on the skin cut with scalpel.
(18) They come into the room and one plays on the floor with the laundry basket, while the other climbs into the middle of the bed, nuzzles into his father's armpit. "
(19) I mean, she could just be a massive James Corden fan, but ... TJ Updated at 6.55pm GMT 6.20pm GMT Calvin Harris closes down the armpit party.
(20) This simple method is also suitable for patients with scar contracture of armpit, anterior chest and lower lip.
Axillary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
(a.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(2) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(3) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(4) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(5) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(6) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
(7) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
(8) More severe side effects were seen during rh GM-CSF infusion: One patient experienced an axillary phlebothrombosis.
(9) A 5-year-old Thoroughbred gelding was examined because of a small axillary wound sustained 5 days earlier and had resulted in extensive subcutaneous emphysema.
(10) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.
(11) This report describes three patients who developed emboli to the upper extremity at nine, 15, and 34 months following occlusion of their axillary femoral graft.
(12) The author's diagnostic acumen has increased with the addition of glenohumeral axillary arthrotomography, glenohumeral CT arthrography, glenohumeral arthroscopy, and other studies.
(13) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(14) Metastases to axillary lymph nodes is an important factor in predicting prognosis and survival in primary operable carcinoma of the breast.
(15) Sixty-three out of 238 patients (26 per cent) presented with the following complications: 29 lesions of the brachial plexus, 21 of the axillary nerve and 28 ruptures of the rotator cuff tendon.
(16) Eleven breasts and one axillary lymph node were examined by US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB), which was diagnostic in all cases.
(17) In a pediatric critical care environment with skilled ongoing nursing care, the axillary artery can be used as a site for intraarterial monitoring in pediatric patients without a detrimental effect on concurrent or future blood pressure monitoring.
(18) Thirty-six per cent had axillary occlusion, 52% had a brachial lesion, and the lesion was distal to the elbow in 11%.
(19) Ductal carcinoma in situ as an incidental finding may be treated by excision alone; papillary and micropapillary DCIS are best treated by therapy aimed at the entire breast, although axillary dissection may not be required.
(20) The axillary LFC is used to correct axillary contractures after burns or to cover skin defects following radical excision for hidradenitis suppurativa.