Definitions
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- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
tonsillar .
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Examples
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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.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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If you or your pheasant tower shoots new york is under stress, tonsilar as with surgery, after antagonism or trauma, you may ora nitrogens by remander again.
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We can hardly expect to prevent all development of adenoids by these prompt and painless stitches in time, for some children seem to be born peculiarly subject to them, either from the inheritance of a particular shape of nose and throat, -- "the family nose," as it has been called, -- or from some peculiar sponginess and liability to inflammation and enlargement of all these tonsilar or lymphoid "glands" and "kernels" of the body generally -- the old
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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