Axillary Definition

ăksə-lĕrē
adjective
Of or near the axilla.
Webster's New World
Of, in, or growing from an axil.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or located near the axilla.
American Heritage Medicine
Of, relating to, or located in an axil.
Axillary bud.
American Heritage Medicine

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

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Webster's New World

Origin of Axillary

  • Alteration by association with -ary of the French axillaire (“of the axilla”), itself an alteration of the earlier forms aisselliere and aissellaire, both from the assumed Latin etymon *axillāris, from axilla (“armpit”), diminutive form of the assumed *axula.

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