Crossword clues for axillary
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Axillary \Ax"il*la*ry\ ([a^]ks"[i^]l*l[asl]*r[y^]), a. [See Axil.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
(Bot.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. ``Axillary buds.''
--Gray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to the armpit or shoulder," 1610s, from Latin *axillaris, from axilla "armpit, upper arm, wing" (see axle).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve. 2 (context botany English) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the axil [syn: alar]
of or relating to the armpit; "axillary gland"
Wikipedia
Axillary means "related to the axilla (armpit)".
"Axillary" may refer to:
- Axillary artery
- Axillary border
- Axillary fascia
- Axillary hairs
- Axillary lines
- Axillary lymph nodes
- Axillary nerve
- Axillary process
- Axillary sheath
- Axillary space
- Axillary tail
- Axillary vein
Usage examples of "axillary".
The axillary artery was seen lying in the wound, pulsating feebly, but had been efficiently closed by the torsion of the machinery.
Boerhaave mentions a peasant near Leyden, whose axillary artery was divided with a knife, causing great effusion of blood, and the patient fainted.
It then passed anteriorly under the muscles and integument in the axillary space, along the upper third of the humerus, which was extended beyond the head, the external skin not being ruptured.
In the right pectoral and posterior aspect of the right axillary region, and over the buttocks, the affected skin hung in heavy pendulous flaps.
A small nick in the axillary vessel, a quick ligation of the ductus itself with a number-8 silk ligature.
Attainment of reproductive maturity is signaled in both human sexes by the growth of pubic and axillary hair.
Attainment of reproductive maturity is signaled in both human sexes by the growth of pubic and axillary hair.
A few moments later, Hamid-Jones understood the reason for the axillary block.
I have made a pervaginal examination and, after application of the acid test to 5427 anal, axillary, pectoral and pubic hairs, I declare him to be virgo intacta.
He was finally given the proper signal by her appearance and behaviour, and insisted on an examination which showed a right breast far advanced in cancer, the nipple inverted, the flesh crepey, and that very day she was taken to hospital and the following morning underwent a radical mastectomy and axillary node dissection.
Brian Dalton, the first of three anesthetists who would work during the six-hour procedure, was administering an axillary block, injecting lidocaine (a novocaine-like drug) deep into the armpit, to dull, during the preparation, sensation in the nerves that ran out to the hand.
Alone, nitrous oxide would not provide sufficiently deep anesthesia to permit surgery, but the axillary block was also helping.
The Emir didn't care for the sensation at all, even though he'd been desensitized with an anesthetic spray followed by an axillary block.
It was a simple enough case with little likelihood of com-plications so he decided to start with the axillary artery as usual.
He plucked the bluish axillary vein clear of the artery and the cluster of large nerves, then slipped two ligatures around the vein and tightened the lower one.