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Adenoids—Anger, family arguments, feeling left out or unloved.
The Secret Language of Your Body Inna Segal 2010
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Adenoids are sometimes surgically removed along with the tonsils if they are persistently inflamed (see inflammation).
adenoids 2002
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Adenoids cause more trouble and more actual disease than any other condition during childhood.
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Adenoids in children frequently bring about a bad ear trouble.
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Adenoids not only obstruct the respiratory passage way to the throat and lungs, but they also exert a harmful influence on the general physical and mental development of the child.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Adenoids always interfere with respiration, thereby depriving the child of a normal quantity of oxygen, thus rendering the blood less pure, and, as a consequence, seriously interfering with the nourishment and general health.
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Adenoids are very common, almost popular, in childhood.
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Adenoids are associated with, and are responsible for, many of the ailments of childhood.
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Adenoids that could be removed -- even failure to keep the nose clean -- may prevent a man from succeeding.
Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins
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Adenoids, like enlarged tonsils, are dangerous, apart from the physical distress and disease which they cause, owing to the fact that they harbor deadly bacteria, and from these bacteria, which find a lodgment in the adenoids and tonsils, a fatal attack of diphtheria or consumption may have its beginning.
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