Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the tonsils: as, tonsillar arteries or follicles; tonsillar disease.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the tonsils

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Examples

  • Between the plica triangularis and the surface of the tonsil is a space known as the tonsillar sinus; in many cases, however, this sinus is obliterated by its walls becoming adherent.

    XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces 1918

  • We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.

    What’s Your Problem? 2009

  • We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.

    What’s Your Problem? 2009

  • I think the guidelines are a great collaboration between otolaryngologists, pediatricians and infectious disease experts to help standardize the care of children with tonsillar disease," said Dr. Jerry Schreibstein of the Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeons of Western New England in Springfield, Mass."

    No surgery for moderate tonsillitis, new guidelines say 2011

  • We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.

    What’s Your Problem? 2009

  • Doctors and dentists are seeing increasing numbers of tonsillar and tongue cancers in young men and women, even as rates of other oral cancers and the use of tobacco, a factor typically associated with increased risk of oral cancer, have declined, and rates of oral sex have increased.

    HPV and Oral Cancer aka TBTAM 2007

  • Scientists testing tumor samples from Sweden's tumor registry in 2007 found that the rate of HPV DNA presence in tonsillar cancers increased from 23% in 1975 to 68% in 2002. 3.

    HPV and Oral Cancer aka TBTAM 2007

  • But arguing against boys being vaccinated against HPV because a male has a low risk for developing genital cancer due to HPV fails to also acknowledge that we still do not know what all maladies HPV causes, particularly ano-rectal carcinoma which some would argue is also “genital”,..., but perhaps more importantly, head and neck cancers, especially tonsillar carcinoma.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Gardasil Vaccinations for Boys? 2009

  • The tonsillar lymph glands which lie just behind the angle of the jaw externally are enlarged and tender.

    Natural Remedies for Curing Tonsillitis 2009

  • Somewhere between 40 and 75% of tongue and tonsillar cancers contain HPV16 DNA.

    HPV and Oral Cancer aka TBTAM 2007

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