Crossword clues for axilla
axilla
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Axilla \Ax*il"la\ ([a^]ks*[i^]l"l[.a]), n.; pl. Axillae ([a^]ks*[i^]l"l[=ae]). [L.] (Anat.) The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
2. (Bot.) An axil.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder. 2 (context botany uncommon English) (alternative form of axil English)
WordNet
n. the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: armpit, axillary cavity, axillary fossa]
[also: axillae (pl)]
Wikipedia
The axilla (also, underarm, oxter, or, colloquially, armpit) is the area on the human body directly under the joint where the arm connects to the shoulder. It also provides the under-arm sweat gland.
In humans, the formation of body odor happens mostly in the axillary region. These odorant substances serve as pheromones which play a role related to mating. The underarm regions seem more important than the genital region for body odor which may be related to human bipedalism.
Usage examples of "axilla".
Volgnarius has seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, and Polisius mentions an abscess of the back from which was extracted a grain of wheat three months after ingestion.
In this affection the colored sweating appears symmetrically in various parts of the body, the parts commonly affected being the cheeks, forehead, side of the nose, whole face, chest, abdomen, backs of the hands, finger-tips, and the flexors, flexures at the axillae, groins, and popliteal spaces.
The thermometer was variously placed in the mouth, anus, axilla, popliteal space, groin, urethra, and different instruments were from time to time employed.
The other case was quite peculiar, the woman being a prostitute, who menstruated from time to time through spots, the size of a five-franc piece, developing on the breasts, buttocks, back, axilla, and epigastrium.
Chambers mentions a woman of twenty-seven who suffered from bloody sweat after the manner of the stigmatists, and Petrone mentions a young man of healthy antecedents, the sweat from whose axillae and pubes was red and very pungent.
Instead of hair they possess a chitinous white growth on face, axillae and genitals.
Incisions had been sliced into the goon's thick hide at the axillae, where many-jointed arms and legs met ribs and bony plates.
It could not accurately be claimed that the dismembered woman was exactly twenty-six years old, although it could have been said that her remains appeared to be those of a post-prepubescent female who probÂably was in her late teens or twenties, and that she had dark brown hair in her axillae, or armpits.
It could not accurately be claimed that the dismembered woman was exactly twenty-six years old, although it could have been said that her remains appeared to be those of a post-prepubescent female who probably was in her late teens or twenties, and that she had dark brown hair in her axillae, or armpits.
There's bubonic plague, which is when you have buboes or swellings in the groin and axilla.