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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Children who have had large adenoids removed develop slightly better hearing thresholds than those who have had smaller adenoids removed.
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Size of adenoids affected the gains in mean hearing thresholds of only those children receiving adenoidectomy.
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Some relation between size of adenoids and thresholds of hearing has also been shown.
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The answer could be to remove the tonsils or adenoids , according to a study of 60 children in Oxford.
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The filtering function of lymphatic tissue enables the tonsils and adenoids to trap pathogens.