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Definition of Tonsillectomies
1. tonsillectomy [n] - See also: tonsillectomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonsillectomies
Literary usage of Tonsillectomies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1919)
"tonsillectomies, 17 thyroidectomies (10 for simple goiter. 4 for exophthalmic*
goiter, and 3 for thyrotoxic adenomas), and 4 of these patients had secondary ..."
2. United States Naval Medical Bulletin by Navy Dept, United States, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (1916)
"(o. BT) j.\, OW Tonsillectomy in the adult. Are we justified in dot many
indiscriminate tonsillectomies for remote infections? xxv, No. 5. ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"... by Burger's case and by the two which he found on record; thus the only fatality
among 6000 tonsillectomies by Kofler and 10000 tonsillectomies by ..."
4. Industrial Medicine and Surgery by Harry Edgar Mock (1919)
"This scrutiny showed that for the two years previous to the tonsillectomies these
employees had made 160 visits to the doctor's office, chiefly on account ..."
5. The Tonsils and the Voice in Science, Surgery, Speech and Song: A by Richard Biddle Faulkner (1915)
"The original ton- sillar conditions that preceded the tonsillectomies which caused
post-operative hemorrhages that led to the ligations would ..."