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Tonsil   /tˌɑnsəl/   Listen
noun
Tonsil  n.  (Anat.) One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.






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"Tonsil" Quotes from Famous Books



... grasp. Half closing it, she swam directly toward the monster into whose widening throat she thrust the sharp-pointed instrument, in, in, until I thought she herself would follow it. And then, as she had intended, the point pierced the wak-wak's tonsil. ...
— The Cruise of the Kawa • Walter E. Traprock



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