axillary arteries meaning

• [Medicine]
  The continuation of the subclavian artery; it distributes over the upper limb,axilla,chest and shoulder.

• Nine days later, he checked into axillary arteries of the right arm.
• In the axilla, the axillary artery is surrounded by the brachial plexus.
• The subclavian becomes the axillary artery at the lateral border of the first rib.
• It is a branch of the axillary artery, a main artery in the shoulder.
• The axillary artery has several smaller branches.
• Damage to the axillary artery and axillary nerve ( C5, C6 ) may result.
• Cone's aneurysm involved the right axillary artery and a smaller branch, the circumflex humeral artery.
• The second part of the axillary artery is the reference for the locational descriptions of the cords in the brachial plexus.
• The medial and lateral pectoral nerves form a connection, or loop, around the axillary artery, called ansa pectoralis.
• The aneurysm involved the posterior circumflex humeral and axillary arteries, and no one knows for how long it had been present.

• "axillary arteries" meaning in Chinese: 《英文msh词典》Axillary Arteries