Dislocation of the humerus's glenohumeral joint, has the potential to injure the axillary nerve or the axillary artery.

Having passed through this inter muscular gap, the radial nerve continues posteriorly in a medial to lateral fashion on the arm while in conjunction with the axillary artery / brachial artery.

However, a study conducted in 2004 determined that, in 20 cadaveric specimens and 15 surgical dissections on participants, the long head was innervated by a branch of the axillary nerve in all cases.

The axillary nerve or the circumflex nerve is a nerve of the human body, that comes off the of the brachial plexus ( upper trunk, posterior division, posterior cord ) at the level of the axilla ( armpit ) and carries nerve fibers from C5 and C6.

The axillary nerve travels through the quadrangular space with the posterior circumflex humeral artery and vein.

The axillary nerve supplies three muscles ; deltoid ( a muscle of the shoulder ), teres minor ( one of the rotator cuff muscles ) and the long head of the triceps brachii ( an elbow extensor ).

The axillary nerve also carries sensory information from the shoulder joint, as well as the skin covering the inferior region of the deltoid muscle-the " regimental badge " area ( which is innervated by the Superior Lateral Cutaneous Nerve branch of the Axillary nerve ).

The posterior cord splits inferiorly to the glenohumeral joint giving rise to the axillary nerve which wraps around the anatomical neck of the humerus, and the radial nerve which wraps around the humerus anteriorly and descends along its lateral border.

* The trunk of the axillary nerve gives off an articular filament which enters the shoulder-joint below the subscapularis.

The axillary nerve may be injured in anterior-inferior dislocations of the shoulder joint, compression of the axilla with a crutch or fracture of the surgical neck of the humerus.

An example of injury to the axillary nerve includes axillary nerve palsy.

The nerve descends behind the brachial plexus and the axillary vessels, resting on the outer surface of the Serratus anterior.

The long thoracic nerve can also be damaged during surgery for breast cancer, specifically radical mastectomies that involve removal of axillary lymph nodes.

The deltoid is innervated by the axillary nerve.

The axillary nerve originates from the ventral rami of the C5 and C6 cervical nerves, via the superior trunk, posterior division of the superior trunk, and the posterior cord of the brachial plexus.

While some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

Diagnosis is based on the demonstration of Lafora bodies within the apocrine sweat gland of the skin by an axillary skin biopsy examination.

* Simple mastectomy ( or " total mastectomy "): In this procedure, the entire breast tissue is removed, but axillary contents are undisturbed.

Sometimes the " sentinel lymph node "-- that is, the first axillary lymph node that the metastasizing cancer cells would be expected to drain into — is removed.

* Modified radical mastectomy: The entire breast tissue is removed along with the axillary contents ( fatty tissue and lymph nodes ).

** axillary, when located in the axil of a leaf ( lateral is the equivalent but some adventitious buds may be lateral too );

** pseudoterminal, for an axillary bud taking over the function of a terminal bud ( characteristic of species whose growth is sympodial: terminal bud dies and is replaced by the closer axillary bud, for examples beech, persimmon, Platanus have sympodial growth ).

* Temperature under the arm ( axillary ) or in the ear ( otic ) is at or over

In healthy adult men and women, the range of normal, healthy temperatures for oral temperature is, for rectal it is, for tympanic membrane ( the ear drum ) it is, and for axillary ( the armpit ) it is.

This artery is a continuation of the axillary artery.

The point at which the axillary becomes the brachial is distal to the lower border of teres major.

The orange-veined, yellow-petaled, pea-like flower of the Arachis hypogaea is borne in axillary clusters above ground.

The ovary is superior with two locules, each of which bearing two axillary ovules.

In medicine, a central venous catheter (" central line ", " CVC ", " central venous line " or " central venous access catheter ") is a catheter placed into a large vein in the neck ( internal jugular vein ), chest ( subclavian vein or axillary vein ) or groin ( femoral vein ).

A possible theory being studied now is that these axillary odors are being used to provide information about the immune system.

Wedekind and colleagues found that both men and women prefer the axillary odors of people whose MHC is different from their own.

In order to produce extra axillary buds that are necessary for plants containing multiple flowers, a phytoplasma infection – whose symptoms include the proliferation of axillary buds – is used.

Apical meristems, located at the shoot tip and axillary buds on the stem, allow plants to increase in length, surface, and mass.

In the axils of the leaves formed during later development, the axillary branch primordial do not produce more than one or two prophylls and a bud .” The branches of C. garciae and C. hispidissima occur at a height of 0. 5 to 1 meter and the branches depart at acute angles.

It lies at first behind the axillary artery, and in front of the subscapularis, and passes downward to the lower border of that muscle.

The subclavian becomes the axillary artery at the lateral border of the first rib.

In all plumages, the inner flanks and axillary feathers at the base of the underwing are black, a feature which readily distinguishes it from the other three Pluvialis species in flight.

The stolons originate at the axillary buds of the corm scales, and generally produce new corms at their tips

The flower buds form first at the tip of the stem and later at the tip of the axillary branches.

The leaves -- attached to the branches at the axillary nodes -- are wedge-shaped, 1 – 3 cm long and 0. 3 – 1 cm broad, with the wider outer tips divided into three lobes ( hence the scientific name tridentata ).

The flowers appear in axillary umbellate clusters at the tip of a peduncles.

Additional ports are opened inferior to the ribs at the epigastric, midclavicular, and anterior axillary positions.

Pups are blackish at birth, with variable oval areas of buff on the sides, in the axillary area, and on the chin and sides of the muzzle.

In an elevated arm position the axillary neurovascular bundle can be seen at the posterior axillary fold just before it perforates the deltoideus.

It differs from other species in the genus in being a tropical plant, evergreen, having unlobed leaves, and in the leaf stem not enclosing the axillary bud at its base.

These stolons from the corm of a Crocosmia are stems that emerged from axillary buds at the nodes of the bulb | tunic leaves.

In order to collect the axillary compounds, the donor women wore cotton pads under their arms for at least 8 hours, and then the pads were cut into smaller squares, frozen to preserve the scent, and readied for distribution to the recipients.

The inflorescences occur either as a terminal shoot at the top of the plant, or as terminal and axillary shoots arising from lower nodes, or rarely as only axillary shoots that pierce through the leaf sheath such as in Coleotrype and Amischotolype.