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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.

Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic. [Written also tonsillar.]

Capable of being clipped.

Tonsilar. [Written also tonsillitic.]

Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

An instrument for removing the tonsils.

The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.

One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. --…

One of the tonsils of the pharynx.

Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.

r side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.

Scarification or incision of the tonsils.

An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] Shak. Sore throat (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche. -- Malignant, Ulcerated or Putrid, sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.