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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But one summer when I was around ten or eleven I developed a nasty sore throat which the doctor thought was tonsillitis .
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Cascarino did not train yesterday but Manchester City left back Terry Phelan proved his full recovery from tonsillitis .
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Craig was able to say his thanks in church while I was languishing in bed with tonsillitis .
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Pitcher Jeff Juden is still bedridden with acute tonsillitis .
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Schizophrenia is classified as a functional psychosis and split personality as a dissociative hysterical neurosis, as different as tonsillitis and appendicitis.