(n.) The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
(n.) An axil.
Example Sentences:
(1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
(2) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(3) Electrical and mechanical responses were evoked in the elbow flexors (EFs) of normal subjects and myopathy patients by maximal stimulation of the musculocutaneous nerve by a wire electrode in the axilla.
(4) The T-1 nerve root obstructs posterolateral access to the T-1 vertebra, necessitating an inferolateral approach underneath the T-1 nerve root axilla.
(5) (i) ipsilateral mastectomy with contralateral biopsy; (ii) ipsilateral segmental excision with block dissection of the axilla; (iii) bilateral mastectomy; and (iv) diagnostic excision biopsy and lifelong follow-up of both breasts with clinical examination and mammography.
(6) Axilla skin biopsy is, therefore, an easy and reliable method for confirming the diagnosis of adult polyglucosan body disease.
(7) Only a single child relapsed in the unirradiated axilla, and this simultaneously with cervical, mediastinal and paraortic nodes.
(8) We believe that the brachial-jugular graft is a procedure that can be considered as vascular access for hemodialysis in cases where the use of veins in the upper extremity and the axilla is not possible.
(9) Our material consisted of 50 breast cancer cases with negative axilla.
(10) The antibacterial soap also reduced the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus on the skin, mostly by virtually eliminating it from areas other than the axilla.
(11) Twenty-two patients with hyperhidrosis were treated at twenty-seven sites (axillae, palms, soles) with this unit.
(12) We conclude that CT of the axilla only appears to be of value when the axilla is impossible to palpate due to previous treatment.
(13) In 38 patients undergoing femoral artery profundaplasty and in 18 having simple mastectomy with pectoral node biopsy, a 6.2 per cent solution of sodium sulphan blue was injected peripherally to outline the lymph nodes in the groin or axilla.
(14) Histological examination of skin specimens from this area of the axilla demonstrated hypoplasia of the apocrine sweat glands, but normal eccrine sweat glands, indicating an apocrine dependent axillary sweating function.
(15) Three patients are described who developed painful bands across the axilla which severely restricted shoulder abduction after breast surgery and axillary lymph-node dissection.
(16) This paper reports a difference in the lymphoid tissue area in the axilla of node-negative breast cancer patients in the first versus the second half of the year, the area being greater in the latter.
(17) We review our surgical experience with hidradenitis suppurativa of the axilla at Cook County Hospital during the years 1963 to 1972.
(18) A retrospective review evaluated results of 38 posttreatment biopsies (with resulting benign pathologic findings) that were performed on 32 irradiated breasts or axillae in 31 of 232 patients who underwent conservation treatment of early-stage breast cancer.
(19) Their use prevents the uncomfortable prolonged splintage of the axilla with the shoulder in abduction which follows split skin grafting.
(20) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
Cavity
Definition:
(n.) Hollowness.
(n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(2) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(3) In three of these patients this was associated with the presence of a previously well established abscess cavity.
(4) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(5) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
(7) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(9) A new technique to obliterate the mastoid volume or to reduce an old cavity by means of hydroxyapatite granulate is presented.
(10) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(12) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(13) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
(14) A pilot study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of gas in the puerperal endometrial cavity and to determine whether this finding has any relationship to the mode of delivery or to the development of puerperal endometritis.
(15) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
(16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
(17) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(18) Aspergillomas generally arise from saprophytic colonization of a pre-existing pulmonary cavity with Aspergillus, and may be complicated by life-threatening hemoptosis.
(19) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
(20) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.