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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Added to which, my limbs had begun to ache and my tonsils felt as if some one had sandpapered them.
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Free dentists, free operations, free tonsils, free milk.
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On the fourth day after the operation gram-positive rods were seen in a bacterial culture from the tonsil tissue.
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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.
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There were large greyish membranes on the hypopharynx and the right tonsil , which was necrotic.
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Yes, your tonsils are inflamed.