The temperature in the axilla is normally about half a degree lower than in the mouth.
Temperatures taken in the axilla are less accurate than those taken by mouth or rectum.
The axilla should first be wiped; then the thermometer should be inserted and held for 5 minutes by pressing the arm tightly against the chest wall.
He had a little pain in the axilla and felt a slight indisposition for three or four hours.
His left hand was very severely affected with several corroding ulcers, and a tumour of considerable size appeared in the axilla of that side.
Swellings and stiffness in each axilla followed, and he was so much indisposed for several days as to be incapable of pursuing his ordinary employment.
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.
Flanks dark brown with pale blue spots inaxilla and groin and bluish white flecks on mid-flank.
Intense brown and black pigment forms fine reticulations delimiting bold blue spots on the flanks; this coloration extends to the axilla in many specimens.
The bloodvessels of the axilla follow the motions of the arm; and according to the position assumed by the arm, these vessels describe various curves, and lie more or less removed from the side of the thorax.
The course of the brachial artery along the inner border of the biceps muscle is comparatively superficial, from the point where it leaves the axilla to the bend of the elbow.
In the cold stage it is not uncommon for a difference of temperature to be noted of nearly ten degrees between the axilla and the rectum.
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.
It is a familiar fact that the difference of temperature in cholera when taken in the rectum and the axilla may be 4° F.
They are confined to no part of the body, but appear usually earliest and most abundantly upon the folds of the axilla and upon the abdomen.
In 2 cases only did the thermometer in the axilla reach 105°.
In a female aged thirty-two the temperature in the axilla was 93° F.
He usually picked up objects with his teeth, and could hold a coin in the axilla as he rolled from place to place.
Pilcher cites the instance of a woman of fifty-eight, eight months in her fourth pregnancy, whose breast and axilla he removed without interruption of pregnancy.
Gooch gives an instance of a boy of thirteen who fell from the top of a barn upon the sharp prow of a plough, inflicting an oblique wound from the axilla to below the sternum, slightly above the insertion of the diaphragm.
The glands in the rightaxilla and the groin were much enlarged.
Tousey reports a case of foreign body in the axilla that was taken for a necrotic fragment of the clavicle.
The Ephemerides speaks of a peculiar idiosyncrasy of skin in the axilla of a certain person, which if tickled would provoke vomiting.
Ventrolateral glands noticeably thickened, extending from axilla nearly to groin and only narrowly separated midventrally on chest; skin of anterior part of chin thickened and glandular.
Ventrolateral glands weakly developed, not reaching axilla or groin and broadly separated midventrally.
Ventrolateral glands well developed, not reaching axilla or groin and broadly separated midventrally.
Ventrolateral glands moderately developed, reaching axilla but not to groin and broadly separated midventrally.
Ventrolateral glands moderately developed, not reaching axilla or groin and broadly separated midventrally.
In most individuals the white color in the axilla extends onto the posterior edge of the upper arm.
Ventrolateral glands well developed, reaching axilla and groin and narrowly separated on chest.
Lymphatic enlargement was now made out, and by the evening of the seventh day the bubo in the axilla had increased markedly in size, the swelling approximating 3 by 7 centimetres.
At the necropsy, the glands of the right axilla and those of the right side of the neck were found enlarged; the other lymphatic glands were also enlarged, but to a lesser degree.
Further, the skin surfaces of the axilla having been separated by a thin layer of cotton wool, a sling is applied to support the wrist, and the arm is bound to the side by a body bandage.
If a cold abscess forms in the bursa underneath the deltoid, the pus may burrow and appear at the anterior or posterior boundary of the axilla or in the axillary space.
The extravasation in the axilla is usually greater than that accompanying a simple dislocation, and the pain and shock are more severe.
The pus may also reach the axilla by spread of the infection along the subclavian vessels.
The method of reduction by traction on the arm with the heel in the axilla is only to be used when other measures have failed, as it depends for its success on sheer force.
The limb is placed in a light form of splint reaching from theaxilla to the wrist, flexed to rather less than a right angle and with the hand semi-pronated and dorsiflexed.
A thin layer of wool is placed in the axilla to separate the skin surfaces.
Pain between shoulders, which extend to axillaand down the arms.
It most generally extends to the left axilla, and down the arm to the fingers; as variations it sometimes affects the right axilla and the back of the head.
It also stretched into the axilla to within half an inch of the nervous and vascular plexus, and a large arterial trunk could be felt along its under surface.
The artery is more involved at the middle portion of the axilla than at the superior and inferior; at that point, too, the cephalic vein, as well as the axillary, impedes the operator.
The operation was commenced by making an incision from the axilla to the lower and posterior part of the tumour.
The conformation of the region of the axilla was quite peculiar.
Wounds received with the arm outstretched and traversing the axilla sometimes gave considerable trouble in excluding with certainty a perforation of the thoracic cavity.
Twenty years previously the patient suffered a punctured wound of the left axilla from a pencil.
The temperature of the insensitive axilla was one degree higher than that of the right.
The antero-posterior wound in the upper third of the arm was healed, but a month after the injury a large fluctuating arterial hæmatoma developed in the axilla and upper third of the arm.
As far as my experience went, injuries to the lower portion of the capsule accompanying wounds of the axilla were those most often met with.
The wound traversed the axilla from just beneath the anterior fold; three weeks later a firm mass in the axillacorresponded to the wound track.
The men carefully pluck from their chins, axilla of the arms, eye-brows, &c.
The axilla is filled with blood vessels, lymph vessels, lymph glands, nerves, and masses of fat.
The lymphatic system is generally affected, the lymph glands of the groin and axilla showing evidence of inflammation.
A similar enlargement is met with in the axilla in cases of chronic interstitial mastitis, and in the groin as a result of chronic irritation about the external genitals, such as balanitis.
In the axilla also the cystic tumour may attain a considerable size (Fig.
When the pus forms in the axillary space, the treatment consists in making free incisions, which should be placed on the thoracic side of the axilla to avoid the axillary vessels and nerves.
The long thoracic nerve may be cut across while clearing out the axilla in operating for cancer of the breast.
This appearance is also a very pleasing one; it accompanies eruption; every disagreeable symptom ceases; and at the same time it certainly indicates the whole affair to be over; the pain and stiffness in the axilla also going off.
In the morning he complained of great pain at the incision up to the shoulder and the axilla of one arm.
Besides these, there are three other highly characteristic examples of echinococcus disease affecting the region of the neck, breast, and axilla respectively.
The pectoralis major forms the anterior fold of the axilla or armpit, the posterior being formed by the latissimus dorsi and teres major muscles.
In an earlier report of investigations of this nature, a few experiments on comparison of measurements of resistance thermometer deep in the rectum and in a well-closed axilla showed a distinct tendency for the curves to continue parallel.
Eggs are laid in both places, but not many, showing that the groin and the axilla are adopted only reluctantly and for lack of a better spot.
At most, finding nothing better when my stratagems interfere, she persuades herself to dab a few eggs under the axilla of a plucked bird or in the groin, two points at which the skin is thinner than elsewhere.
In smaller animals the parts are retained by figure-8 bandages, embracing both the normal and the diseased shoulders, crossing each other in the axilla and covered with a coating of adhesive mixture.
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