Usually means: Armpit area between arm, torso.
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  1. axilla: Merriam-Webster
  2. axilla: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. axilla: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. axilla: Collins English Dictionary
  5. axilla: Vocabulary.com
  6. Axilla, axilla: Wordnik
  7. axilla: Wiktionary
  8. axilla: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. axilla: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. axilla: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. axilla: Dictionary.com
  12. Axilla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Axilla: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. axilla: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. axilla: Rhymezone
  16. Axilla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. axilla: FreeDictionary.org
  18. axilla: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. axilla: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. axilla: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. axilla: Merriam-Webster

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  1. axilla: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. axilla: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Axilla: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  8. Axilla: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. Axilla: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  12. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  13. axilla: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. axilla: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  15. axilla: Medical dictionary
  16. Axilla: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. axilla: A Word A Day
  2. axilla: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. axilla: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)

(Note: See axillae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (axilla)

noun:  The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
noun:  (entomology) The area that is located posterior to the transscutal articulation and anterior to the scutoscutellar suture.
noun:  (botany, uncommon) Alternative form of axil [(botany) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.]

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