"Tonsil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... These prominent arches and their fellows are named the pillars of the fauces. The anterior pillar, 5, is formed by the submucous palato-glossus muscle; the posterior pillar, 6, is formed by the palato-pharyngeus muscle. Between these pillars, 5 and 6, is situated the tonsil, S, beneath the mucous membrane. When the tonsils of opposite sides become inflamed and suppurate, an incision may be made into either gland without much chance of wounding the internal carotid artery; for, in fact, this vessel lies somewhat removed ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... 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
... he had "tonsil-eatus"—a funny name. He called out to Mother to inquire if they would really "eat us"—and how they could "eat us" when they were in your throat already. He felt rather proud of that joke and better for having made it—for ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson
... "tonsil-eatus"—a funny name. He called out to Mother to inquire if they would really "eat us"—and how they could "eat us" when they were in your throat already. He felt rather proud of that joke and better for having made ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson
... special guide took me to Dr. Mayo, who had already heard my story at the hotel but who, wished it in writing. Accordingly, I was presented to a group of the staff and one man assigned as my escort. I answered him a thousand questions, touching my physical life for fifty-six years. Then to the tonsil man, who saw a distinct "focus," now there, a focus in the tonsils! Nose and ears without focus or focii or focuses. Down an elevator, through a labyrinth of halls, down an inclined plane, up a flight of steps, ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane |
