tonsils

Think the Frogtown settlers rinsed their tonsils with something that was “too wet to plow and too thick to drink”?

Here's a transcript in case you're at the vet waiting for your cat's tonsils to be removed.

The procedure is now the most common surgery performed in the U.S.—more common than getting your tonsils or appendix removed.

Vincent's angina is a chronic pseudomembranous and ulcerative inflammation of pharynx and tonsils.

The uvula, the pillars of the palate, and the tonsils are parts of the structure.

Almonds (′mundz), the tonsils or glands of the throat, so called from their resemblance to the fruit of the almond-tree.

Quinsy, kwin′zi, n. an inflammatory affection of the substance of the tonsils, attended when fully developed by suppuration.

If present, tonsils can be conveniently removed at this stage.