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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



... every one knows, an axillary temperature takes five minutes, during which it is customary for a nurse to kneel beside the bed, or even to sit very lightly on the edge, holding the patient's arm close to his side and counting his respirations while pretending to be thinking of something else. ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... shrikes (Dicrurus macrocercus) the male, whilst almost a nestling, moults his soft brown plumage and becomes of a uniform glossy greenish-black; but the female retains for a long time the white striae and spots on the axillary feathers; and does not completely assume the uniform black colour of the male for three years. The same excellent observer remarks that in the spring of the second year the female spoon- bill (Platalea) of China resembles the male of the first year, and that apparently it is not until ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... of membranous scales above the halteres, behind the root of the wing, one above or before the other; the anterior attached to the wing and moving with it, the posterior fastened to the thorax and stationary; see calyptra; squama; squamula; lobulus; axillary lobe; aileron; scale; tegulae: Coleoptera; a membranous appendage of the elytra which ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith


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