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Definition of Axillary cavity
1. Noun. The hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder. "They were up to their armpits in water"
Generic synonyms: Bodily Cavity, Cavity, Cavum
Terms within: Arteria Axillaris, Axillary Artery
Group relationships: Shoulder
Derivative terms: Axillary
Medical Definition of Axillary cavity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Axillary Cavity
Literary usage of Axillary cavity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgical operations: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Friedrich Pels-Leusden (1912)
"If the axillary cavity be emptied of its fat, the vessels and nerves being ...
Farthest ventrally in the axillary cavity and forming its anterior limit, ..."
2. Atlas and Epitome of Operative Surgery by Otto Zuckerkandl (1902)
"axillary cavity: incisions for exposure of the axillary artery and the brachial
artery. arm ... The axillary cavity is exposed to view, with its boundaries, ..."
3. The Lymphatics: General Anatomy of the Lymphatics by Gabriel Delamare, Bernard Cunéo, Cecil Huntington Leaf (1904)
"... of the axillary cavity, towards the summit of which they converge. The description
of the relations between the axillary glands and the different layers ..."
4. A Treatise, practical and theoretic on cancers and the cancer-process by Herbert L. Snow (1893)
"By tearing gently with the fingers at the axillary end of the previous incisions,
complete access to the axillary cavity is readily gained, ..."
5. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"If, as sometimes occurs, there is compression on the trunk of the nerve in the
axillary cavity, for example, from an insufficiently padded crutch, ..."
6. The Science and art of obstetrics by Sheldon Leavitt (1901)
"Again, the axillary cavity bounded by the arm and the thoracic wall represents
an angle, the point of which is necessarily directed towards the head. ..."
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