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Axillary   Listen
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Axillary  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.
2.
(Bot.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds."





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"Axillary" Quotes from Famous Books



... passes for a Golden Plover, especially in the case of young birds on their first arrival in November; but for the sake of the unknowing in such matters, I may say that they need never be deceived, as the Grey Plover has a hind toe, and also has the axillary plume or the longish feathers under the wing black, while the Golden Plover has no hind toe and the axillary plume white: a little attention to these distinctions, which hold good at all ages and in all plumages, may occasionally save a certain amount of ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith
... which becomes an independent plant before it commences to elongate; it is generally fleshy, somewhat after the manner of a bulb, hence its name. Examples occur in the axillary buds of Lilium bulbiferum, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various
... considerable force till I get it as high or higher than normal position of the shoulder. Then pull her shoulder straight out from the body a fairly good pull, then pull the arm up on a straight line with the face, and be sure that you have let loose the axillary and mammary veins, nerve and artery, which have been cramped by pulling the arm down during delivery. No breast should become caked in the hands of an Osteopath. Do not bother about the bowels for two or three days. It may be necessary to use the catheter ...
— Philosophy of Osteopathy • Andrew T. Still
... "Give us this day our daily bread" as follows: "Confer upon us during this mundane sphere's axillary revolution our diurnal subsistence." And another, instead of saying, "Jesus wept," said, "And Jesus the Saviour of the world burst into a flood of tears;" upon hearing which Dr. Johnson is said to have exclaimed in ...
— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate


Words linked to "Axillary" :   phytology, armpit, axillary node, alar, axil, axilla, anatomy, axillary vein, axillary cavity


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