Sentence examples for to the tonsils from inspiring English sources
adverb
Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.
- He was stuffed to the tonsils with cream crackers.
And from there it's only a short jump to the tonsils themselves where the Harpies live.
The early events during infection with an immunodeficiency virus were followed by application of pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus atraumatically to the tonsils of macaques.
The tonsillectomy procedure itself is not technically demanding, but unexpected excessive hemorrhage is a constant risk due to a surplus of blood supply to the tonsils and surrounding pharyngeal soft tissues.
This is most commonly seen in skull base tumours in the vicinity of highly metabolic brain parenchyma or in small oral cavity tumours close to the tonsils, which show high physiological FDG uptake (see above) [3, 4, 9, 33, 68].
Poliovirus divides within gastrointestinal cells for about a week, from where it spreads to the tonsils (specifically the follicular dendritic cells residing within the tonsilar germinal centers), the intestinal lymphoid tissue including the M cells of Peyer's patches, and the deep cervical and mesenteric lymph nodes, where it multiplies abundantly.
We provide evidence from a non-human primate model that a therapeutic vaccine applied to the tonsils can maintain low viral loads after cessation of ART.
The recommended features for the colza oil were obtained using only 1 wt.% of acid-activated bentonite, as compared to the Tonsil and Maghnia standard (1.2 1.4 and 2 wt.%, respectively).
However, most patients underwent excision of the primary tumour (n=63), with or without neck dissection (n=39) and post-operative radiotherapy to the tonsil and neck (n=59).
Submandibular nodes (surgical level IB): All cases except primary palate tumours which do not extend to the tonsil or base of tongue.
If your child has frequent tonsil infections – 7 or more times in 1 year, or 5 or more times over 2 years – you should talk to your doctor about a possible tonsillectomy – a low-risk, out-patient procedure to remove the tonsils.
The idea is to shrink the tonsils rather than cut them out.
