noun
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the technical name for the armpit
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the area on the undersurface of a bird's wing corresponding to the armpit
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of axilla
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1610–20
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There is no dark post-tympanic mark, but dark brown pigment forms a venated pattern from the axilla to the mid-flank; the inguinal region is white, finely mottled with dark brown.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
Ventrolateral glands moderately developed, not reaching axilla or groin and broadly separated midventrally.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
Supposing the arm to have been inoculated, the lymphatic glands of the axilla now become swollen and tender, but their suppuration is unusual, and is to be regarded as a complication.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The temperature in the axilla is normally about half a degree lower than in the mouth.
From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by American Red Cross
The skin on the flanks, especially the axilla, is areolate.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
Countered another scientist: What about "man's retention of abundant tufts in the axillae and pubic regions?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Hare describes a woman of thirty-seven who secreted normal milk from her axillae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Her arms were elevated and kept from her body by the fat in her axillae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Later on in the history of the plague the inflammatory boils and buboes in the groins and axillae were recognized at once as prognosticating a fatal issue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Gardiner describes a mulatto woman who had four mammae, two of which were near the axillae, about four inches in circumference, with proportionate sized nipples.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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