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UK
/tˌɒnsɪlˈaɪtɪs/
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NOUN
- inflammation of the tonsils (especially the palatine tonsils)
How To Use tonsillitis In A Sentence
- Bacterial tonsillitis can be treated with antibiotics, but viral tonsillitis cannot.
- At the onset of tonsillitis the conditions are usually sthenic and indications prominent for veratrum.
- The great majority of cases begin as a tonsillitis or pharyngitis with occasional cases associated with mastoiditis, otitis media, parotitis, sinusitis and dental infections.
- Conversely someone who generally has good health might experience a significant impact on their quality of life from a relatively minor illness, such as tonsillitis, because they have high expectations of their health.
- If there is pus on the tonsils then the condition can properly be diagnosed as tonsillitis.
- In infants, tonsillitis may include symptoms that appear to be less focused on the throat, such as poor feeding, runny nose, and a slight fever.
- HD is a well known Chinese folk medicine used for the treatment of various diseases including hepatitis, tonsillitis, sore throat, appendicitis, urethral infection, contusions, furunculosis and cancers, etc.
- They highlight that the indications for tonsillectomy are not just in cases of strep infections but in cases of severe tonsillitis manifested by fever, swollen glands — enlargement of the lymph nodes — and exudate fluid, said Schreibstein. No surgery for moderate tonsillitis, new guidelines say
- Tonsillitis caused by streptococcal bacteria responds well to antibiotic treatment, clearing the infection more quickly than without treatment.
- Rheumatism in childhood is not manifested by acute and short-lived attacks of great severity so much as by a long-continued succession of symptoms of a subacute nature, a transient arthritis, perhaps, succeeding an attack of sore throat with torticollis, to be followed by carditis, to be followed again by another attack of tonsillitis. The Nervous Child