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tonsil

[ US /ˌtɑnsəɫ/ ]
[ UK /tˈɒnsə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx

How To Use tonsil In A Sentence

  • This will help prevent complications such as rheumatic fever or an abscess around the tonsils.
  • If the abscess is located in the distal part of the tonsil, puncture of the carotid artery can occur.
  • The answer could be to remove the tonsils or adenoids, according to a study of 60 children in Oxford.
  • Levy grinned and I knew, in his head, he was tickling her tonsils. Shortcut Man
  • Almost 1,200,000 tonsillectomies and/or adenoidectomies are performed each year in India.
  • Bacterial tonsillitis can be treated with antibiotics, but viral tonsillitis cannot.
  • This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour.
  • A programme of testing several thousand pathological specimens of appendixes and tonsils was started.
  • Each tonsil has an irregular number of ingrowths of the surface epithelium known as tonsillar crypts.
  • At the onset of tonsillitis the conditions are usually sthenic and indications prominent for veratrum.
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