axillary gland.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The new research grew out of efforts in the 1990s to minimize lymph node surgery in the armpit, called axillary dissection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

All of the women had estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes under the arm, known as the axillary lymph nodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The mammary and axillary glands in health and disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

In the axil of this abnormal leaf were two axillary buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The axillary branches in like manner showed traces of cleavage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Shave carefully in the axillary line and disinfect the denuded skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Two axillary buds proceeding from 1, and themselves giving origin to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

B. Subclavian artery, lying on F, the first rib; b, the axillary artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Sometimes the axillary artery is double, in consequence of its high division into brachial branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Fig. 69 shows the disposition of parts in the primary flower and the situation of the axillary buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Remarks on fractures of the clavicle and dislocation of the humerus in reference to the axillary vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

These latter buds were themselves the subject of tertiary prolification of both kinds, median and axillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Another feature of interest is the rarity with which axillary prolification is found in irregular gamopetalous blooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Median prolification, therefore, in this sense, is a further step in retrograde metamorphosis than is the axillary form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

In order to show some of these nerves, in contact with the artery itself, the axillary vein is drawn a little apart from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The axillary plexus of nerves well merits the name, for I have not found it in any two bodies assuming a similar order or arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Wrisberg, communicating with some of the intercosto-humeral nerves; a, the common trunk of the venae comites, entering the axillary vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

This flower, with the leaf to which it was axillary, evidently belonged to the whorl beneath, where there was a corresponding deficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

K H, and behind by the latissimus dorsi, O, and teres muscles, P, together with a dense thick fascia; at this base the axillary vessels, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

"Rather than saying 'you store fat in the abdomen,' we'll be able to say, 'you store fat in the deep axillary fat compartment'." says Pessa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mapping the Face] Reference

Another infant had abscesses in the cellular substance in the neighbourhood of the incisions, and five or six of the rest had axillary abscesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

In this point of view from which the axillary vessels are now seen, their relative position, in respect to the thorax and the arm, are best displayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

These instruments encountering the inner or axillary aspect of the member, will of course be more likely to involve the vessels and nerves in the wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

All the arterial branches here found are given off from the axillary artery; and the numerous veins which accompany these branches enter the axillary vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

When the main vessels and nerves pass from the axillary space to the inner side of the arm, they become comparatively superficial in this latter situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

In this a wound of the first part of the axillary artery proved fatal in the twenty minutes occupied by the removal of the patient to the dressing station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

S. Cephalic vein, coursing between the deltoid and pectoral muscles, to enter at their cellular interval into the axillary vein beneath E, the subclavius muscle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The stipules may also be fused together in different ways; their edges sometimes cohere between the leaf and the stem, and thus form a solitary intra-axillary stipule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

It has more than once happened to eminent surgeons, that in searching for and dissecting out these diseased axillary glands, H, h, Plate 14, the main artery has been wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference