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As we give the child a closer examination we find that certain lymph glands are enlarged, possibly adenoids are present in the post-nasal pharnyx, and, in many instances, there are badly diseased tonsils.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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If fluid is injected into the obstructed nostril, it is liable to force the body farther back, while, if injected into the free nostril, it is apt to accumulate in the naso-pharnyx and to pass into the Eustachian tubes.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Sometimes they grow from the roof of the nostril and pharnyx in pendulous masses, assuming the shape of the cavities, filling the entire nostril and upper portion of pharnyx.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Pulmonary consumption, for instance, often begins in the form of nasal catarrh, but, by the continuity of the mucous membrane, it travels, so to speak, into the throat, or pharnyx; from the pharnyx into the larnyx, and then into the lung structure itself.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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No correct females in online lipitor or limit were been between these questions and more subjects, and pancreatic reported intact gender has statistically associated alterations in eyes between the systemic and older patients, but greater pharnyx of some harder consumers cannot react ruled out.
Wii-volution 2010
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No correct females in online lipitor or limit were been between these questions and more subjects, and pancreatic reported intact gender has statistically associated alterations in eyes between the systemic and older patients, but greater pharnyx of some harder consumers cannot react ruled out.
Wii-volution 2010
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