Tonsils, everyone is born with them, but what do they do? “Nobody really knows exactly how they work or what their function is,” says Dr. Ryan Winters, a board-certified Otolaryngologist Head and Neck ...

Based on: The Tonsils — Faucial, Lingual, and Pharyngeal. With Some Account of the Posterior and Lateral Pharyngeal Nodules. By Harry A. Barnes, M.D., Instructor in Laryngology, Harvard Medical School ...

"They ought to be disengaged by the finger and removed," the Roman aristocrat Cornelius Celsus wrote of tonsils in the time of Jesus of Nazareth. If the finger proved ineffective, Celsus recommended ...

Tonsillectomy is a commonly performed surgical procedure that involves removal of the palatine tonsils. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between previous tonsillectomy and odds ...

Holes in the tonsils — or tonsillar crypts — enable the tonsils to fight infection by detecting what is entering the body. Some conditions and situations that affect the holes in the tonsils can cause ...

A variety of bacterial and viral infections can cause tonsillitis. You may experience symptoms like sore throat and pain while swallowing. Your tonsils are the two small organs made of lymphoid tissue ...

Tonsil stones are hard white or yellow formations that are located on your tonsils. In many cases, you can use home remedies to dislodge tonsil stones, but in some cases, you may need antibiotics or ...