1. A strong offensive odor via perspiration of the armpits: Tragomaschalia is also termed bromidrosis, or the fetid or foul smell of sweat of the axillae.
2. Etymology: from Greek tragomaschalos, "with smelling armpits", from tragos, "goat" + maschale, the "axilla" (the hollow place under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder).