Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tonsil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx
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Examples
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The tonsilla (tonsilla cerebelli; amygdaline nucleus) is a rounded mass, situated in the hemispheres.
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The inferior vermis is subdivided from before backward, into (1) the nodule, (2) the uvula, (3) the pyramid, and (4) the tuber vermis; the corresponding parts on the hemispheres are (1) the flocculus, (2) the tonsilla cerebelli, (3) the biventral lobule, and (4) the inferior semilunar lobule.
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