Word: armpit
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With the cancer apparently confined to so tiny a nodule, Urban needed to remove only the breast tissue itself, leaving intact the underlying muscle and adjacent tissue in the armpit. To be on the safe side, he sent lymph nodes from inside the breast for paraffin fixing and more microscopy, which proved negative as expected. Despite the surgeon's traditional caution, Urban felt free to say, "We honestly believe Mrs. Rockefeller is cancer free now, and will be free...
...lumps. Then she checked into the hospital for a biopsy to determine if the growths were in fact cancerous. When the tests proved positive, doctors immediately performed a mastectomy. They amputated her breast and removed much of the underlying tissue as well as the lymph nodes under her left armpit...
...frozen with liquid nitrogen. A thin slice was cut, which a pathologist examined under a microscope. Within five minutes the message was relayed to Fouty: malignant cells. In a 2½-hour procedure, Fouty removed the entire right breast, its underlying pectoral muscle, and lymphoid tissue in the adjacent armpit. This tissue was also sent to pathology. Because it takes three or four days to process the lymphoid tissue for microscopic examination, it will not be known until later this week whether Betty Ford's cancer had already spread to some extent. If it had, her doctors may prescribe...
...judge in the Court of Appeals. A young man named Isao is brought before him, accused of conspiring in a right-wing plot against the government. Honda resigns his position and successfully pleads the boy's defense, for he has seen a birthmark--three moles under the left armpit--that convinces him that the boy is a reincarnation of the dead Kiyoaki. Released from jail, the boy assassinates an important financial figure, and then commits harikiri alone...
Philadelphia has taken a lot of knocks in its time. W.C. Fields, Sonny Liston and Derek Sanderson, have all taken verbal jabs at the Quaker City. Philly has come to be known as the urban armpit of the East Coast. With this background, the suggestion of a trip to Philadelphia should logically elicit groans, right? Wrong...