| 单词 | palatine tonsil |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalatine tonsil palatine tonsil n. [after scientific Latin tonsilla palatina (1866 (in German context) or earlier)] Anatomy and Zoology an oval mass of lymphoid tissue lying between the glossopalatine and pharyngopalatine arches on each side of the pharynx; a tonsil (tonsil n. 1); cf. pharyngeal tonsil n. at pharyngeal adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1876 tr. H. F. Wendt in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. VII. 63 In a scrofulous girl..there was a remarkable increase of thickness in the pharyngeal tonsil, in addition to hypertrophy of the palatine tonsils. 1965 L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7) xiii. 238 The palatine tonsils are highly variable, ranging from stalked, protruding organs to ‘buried’ types lying in a deep sinus. 2006 M. E. Fowler & S. K. Mikota Biol., Med., & Surg. Elephants xxiii. 313/1 A recent necropsy dissection of an adult female Indian elephant revealed well-developed discoid to spherical palatine tonsils on either side of the pharynx. < as lemmas |
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