Possessives

• child: Historically, that has led to such things as fashions in, say, the removal of children's tonsils, or in grommets.

Converse of object

• remove: There are a number of different methods that your surgeon can use to remove the tonsils.

• have: Dora has had an operation and had tonsils and adenoids removed.

• inflame: The fresh juice or compote was used as a gargle for hoarseness, sore throat and inflamed tonsils, .

• take: No advising Marc to have his tonsils taken out.

• get: I've got tonsils streaming gunge again, which i am trying not to panic about.

Adjective modifier

• swollen: A sore throat with swollen tonsils that are heavily covered by a white coating.

• enlarged: Enlarged tonsils which are not causing problems do not require removal.

• large: Over the last few months his child has developed large tonsils.

• palatine: Prognosis in patients with malignant neoplasms of the palatine tonsil were better in comparison with tongue cancer.

• right: It was a nightmare, especially when I developed quinsy, a type of abscess, in my right tonsil.

• infected: Swollen adenoids are often associated with tonsillitis ( infected tonsils ) and are usually removed as part of an operation to remove the tonsils.

Modifies a noun

• biopsy: In practice, the tonsil biopsy might obviate the need for a brain biopsy sample to be taken.

• cancer: Chemotherapy has not always been a treatment of choice for tonsil cancer.

• hockey: I've seen tonsil hockey played in pubs before but remain in the dark over this one.

• asymmetry: Tonsil asymmetry may only be apparent in patients with an otherwise normal physical examination, secondary to benign hyperplasia or anatomical factors.

• tissue: In a person infected with CJD, the prion protein can often be seen in a sample ( biopsy ) of tonsil tissue.

• surgery: I think that's where it happened to her, when she had her tonsil surgery.

Preposition: in

• twist: English Tongue Twisters Get your tonsils in a twist with this fun collection of English tongue twisters.

• order: In the view of these findings The Health Protection Agency is undertaking a larger study of 100,000 tonsils in order to refine this figure.