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Tonsil   Listen
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Tonsil  n.  (Anat.) One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tonsil" Quotes from Famous Books



... "tonsil-eatus"—a funny name. He called out to Mother to inquire if they would really "eat us"—and how they could "eat us" when they were in your throat already. He felt rather proud of that joke and better for having made ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... special guide took me to Dr. Mayo, who had already heard my story at the hotel but who, wished it in writing. Accordingly, I was presented to a group of the staff and one man assigned as my escort. I answered him a thousand questions, touching my physical life for fifty-six years. Then to the tonsil man, who saw a distinct "focus," now there, a focus in the tonsils! Nose and ears without focus or focii or focuses. Down an elevator, through a labyrinth of halls, down an inclined plane, up a flight of steps, ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane



Words linked to "Tonsil" :   Luschka's tonsil, palatine tonsil, faucial tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, lymphatic tissue, nasopharynx, third tonsil, lymphoid tissue



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