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  • Axillary clusters of these flowers bloom along the stems from late January to March.

    Faire Diane « Fairegarden 2009

  • Axillary lymph nodes under the arm are sampled at the time of breast surgery, to aid in decision making about systemic therapy.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • B. Axillary artery, crossed by one root of the median nerve; b, basilic vein, forming, with a, the axillary vein, A.C. C.raco-brachialis muscle.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Axillary: placed in the crotch or angle of origin of two bodies; arising from the angle of ramification.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • _List of Genera in which Axillary Prolification has been observed.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • D. Axillary plexus of nerves, of which d is a branch on the coracoid border of the axillary artery; e, the musculo-cutaneous nerve, piercing the coraco-brachialis muscle; f, the ulnar nerve; g, musculo-spiral nerve; h, the median nerve; i, the circumflex nerve.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Axillary vein: one or two longitudinal veins toward the inner margin from the anal vein (Ephemeridae); a group of several (10-20) radiate veins that occupy the anal field in Orthoptera.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Axillary cell: in Diptera (Will.), = 2d anal (Comst.).

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Axillary lobe: the sclerite covering the base of the wing in Diptera; see also alula and posterior lobe.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Axillary excision: = a. incision, q.v. Axillary incision: Diptera; an incision on inner margin of wing, near base, which separates the alula from the main part.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

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