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Inflammation originating in the mouth
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tonsillitis
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tonsilitis , "inflammation of the tonsils," 1801, from comb. form of tonsil + -itis .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of the tonsils.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils most commonly caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Symptoms may include sore throat and fever . It is frequently caused by a viral infection. When caused by a bacterium group A streptococcus , it is typically ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of the tonsils (especially the palatine tonsils)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But one summer when I was around ten or eleven I developed a nasty sore throat which the doctor thought was tonsillitis . ▪ Cascarino did not train yesterday but Manchester City left back Terry Phelan proved his full recovery ...
Usage examples of tonsillitis.
It is useful in the treatment of tonsillitis when pus has begun to form.
There is yet another group of asthmatic subjects in whom the asthma is due to some chronic or repeated infection, such as attacks of tonsillitis, sinusitis, or nasal catarrh.
In the later stages of tonsillitis when matter is discharged or abscess forms.
In Schiewenhorst Hedwig Lau came down with a bad case of tonsillitis, complicated by sudden nosebleeds.
He has mumps, measles, whooping cough, croup, tonsillitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, almost as a matter of course.
They have but the one office, the one industry: to provide tonsillitis and quinsy and such things for the possessor of them.
Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal or, alternatively, to promote suppuration.
It is useful in psoriasis, prurigo, deafness depending on syphilitic disease of the labyrinth, baldness, chronic catarrh, catarrhal jaundice, tonsillitis, and particularly dropsy.