(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.
Maxilla
Definition:
(n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
(n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
(n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(2) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
(3) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(4) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(5) The author has proved by the examination of the lateral x-ray images of hundred patients with progenia that with 64% of the patients the front part of the maxilla alveolaris extension was mildly retarded in growth.
(6) Periodontal pockets were more frequently observed in maxillae than mandibles.
(7) In Paper V, group A, the fixture-supported prostheses were installed in the maxilla and occluded with tooth-supported fixed partial dentures whereas in group B, the arrangements were analogous to those in Papers I-IV.
(8) One type of antral mucocele, commonly seen in Japan, is referred to as a postoperative maxillary cyst and is identical to the surgical ciliated cyst of the maxilla originally reported by Gregory and Shafer.
(9) Measurements of the cranial base angle and the prognathism of the maxilla and the mandible were performed on radiographs of cranial midsagittal tissue blocks of 52 fetuses with a gestational age from 13 to 27 weeks.
(10) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(11) The edentulous posterior maxilla often has inadequate bone for endosteal implants.
(12) The three cases presented in this paper all had different orthodontic and surgical treatment approaches according to the individual involvement of the nose, maxillae, mouth and other facial features.
(13) The authors categorized the height, width, and anteroposterior dimensions of the edentulous maxillae.
(14) A rare case of angiosarcoma of the maxilla is presented.
(15) But we can say that a maldevelopment of the maxilla may be expected to occur in the case of any surgery performed.
(16) The majority of maxillae were moved in more than one plane of space.
(17) We present a case of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor in the maxilla that followed an aggressively malignant course.
(18) Secondary bone grafting of the maxilla in the mixed transitional dentition stage has become a well-accepted procedure in the surgical protocol for rehabilitation of patients with residual alveolar clefts.
(19) An NSAr or NSBa angle higher than the mean value plus one standard deviation, it is associated with of the maxilla retrognathism and contrariwise.
(20) Supplemental teeth usually occur in the maxilla and occasionally in the mandible, generally involving the permanent lateral incisors.