(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.
Maxillary
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
(n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
(n.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(2) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(3) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(4) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
(5) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(6) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(7) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(8) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(9) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(10) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(11) Epistaxis was common in tumors of the ethmoid sinus and nasal fossae, while pain was related to lesions of the maxillary sinus.
(12) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(13) In order to achieve palatal closure with the least possible impediment to maxillary growth, the two-stage repair seems to be the best procedure in our hands.
(14) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(15) Secretion rate and electrolyte concentrations (Na+, K+ and Cl-) in the lacrimal fluid samples were determined before and after injections of small doses of prostaglandins (PGE1, PGE2, PGF1 alpha, PGF2 alpha, 15 epi-PGF2 alpha, PGF2 beta, PGA1 & PGA2) into the external maxillary artery.
(16) A case of extramedullary maxillary sinus plasmocytoma a 39-year-old man is described.
(17) A radiopaque impression material can be used so that the radiographic outline of the maxillary sinus on standard radiographic projections can be shown.
(18) The authors describe a rare case of mucocele of maxillary sinus and, on the basis of the histological and namely of the ultrastructural findings, they maintain that the mucocele has in all probability a multiple pathogenesis being dependent not only on the inflammatory processes, but also on other local predisposing factors and namely the active participation of the mucosa in the formation of the cavity of mucocele.
(19) The cause is considered being an unsufficient antibiotical treatment of maxillary sinusitis.
(20) Although X-ray studies in many of the patients revealed mucosal swelling four weeks after surgery, the maxillary sinuses were well aerated 8 weeks after operation.