Example Sentences

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Between mid-December and the end of January, the field workers collected blood samples from 131 captured deer, as well as nasal and tonsillar swabs from a smaller subset of animals.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Histologically, tonsils do not contain a complete capsule, and the epithelial layer invaginates deeply into the interior of the tonsil to form tonsillar crypts.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It is impossible even to see deep tonsillar tissue without a scope that goes through the nose.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2013

Probing through all the tonsillar tissue under anesthesia looking for something worrisome to biopsy would be difficult and expensive and could set off bleeding near the entrance to the lungs.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2013

They were aware, also, that pronounced tonsillar defect was what we were attempting to detect.

From Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence by Rogers, Margaret Cobb