tonsil
noun
a prominent oval mass of lymphoid tissue on each side of the throat.
tonsilar
-
a word derived from
tonsil.
Example Sentences
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When the doctor states "normal throat," the machine spells out a text that reproduces stereotype descriptions: "throat clear, tongue, pharynx without injections, exudate tonsilar hypertrophy, teeth normal variant."
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Not only so, but these Eustachian tubes are the remains of the first gill-slits of embryonic life, and, like all other gill-slits, have a little mass of this same lymphoid or tonsilar tissue surrounding them.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
