[
US
/ˌtɑnsəɫ/
]
[ UK /tˈɒnsəl/ ]
[ UK /tˈɒnsəl/ ]
NOUN
- 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.