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US
/ˌtɑnsɪˈɫɛktəˌmi/
]
[ UK /tˌɒnsɪlˈɛktəmi/ ]
[ UK /tˌɒnsɪlˈɛktəmi/ ]
NOUN
- surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy
How To Use tonsillectomy In A Sentence
- Her past medical history is remarkable for COPD, peripheral vascular disease with claudication, elevated cholesterol, tonsillectomy, and hysterectomy.
- Objective: Studying a new method that no conventional tonsillectomy is used to treat chronic tonsillitis.
- But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy.
- Use of prophylactic cimetidine or tonsillectomy also may improve symptoms in some children.
- Interventions - Children were randomly allocated to adenotonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, or neither procedure.
- Effect of adenotonsillectomy on nocturnal hypoxaemia, sleep disturbance, and symptoms in snoring children. Ben Goldacre on MMR, autism, and the media
- After the third such bout in the space of a few months, a tonsillectomy was strongly recommended by the family physician.
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- Her weak immune system means she has caught pneumonia six times and e-coli three times and she has just come out of hospital after a four-week stay for breathing problems, which it is hoped a tonsillectomy will have sorted out.
- If your sleep apnoea is caused by large tonsils and/or adenoids, these can be removed in a simple operation called a tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy.