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Definition of Adenoidal

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the adenoids.

2. Adjective. Sounding as if the nose were pinched. "A whining nasal voice"

Definition of Adenoidal

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Pertaining to the adenoids ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a voice) Sounding as if the speaker had swollen adenoids ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adenoidal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenoidal

adenofibrosis adenogenous adenographic adenography adenohypophyses adenohypophysial adenohypophysis adenohypophysitis adenoid adenoid cystic carcinoma

adenoid facies adenoid squamous cell carcinoma adenoid tissue adenoid tumour adenoidal (current term) adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival virus adenoidally adenoidectomies adenoidectomy adenoidism

adenoiditis adenoiditises adenoids adenoleiomyofibroma adenolipoma adenolipomatosis adenological adenology adenolymphocele

Literary usage of Adenoidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: The Report of the edited by Lauren Zeise, Amy J. Dunn (2000)
"2) Decreased eustachian tube patency due to adenoidal hyperplasia Said et al. ... adenoidal hyperplasia is a recognized risk factor for the development of ..."

2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"Since the distribution of magnetic induction is adenoidal, the induction through any surface bounded by a closed curve depends only on the form and position ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Then, too, the services of the physician are often brought into requisition, to cure some physical ill, such as adenoidal growths, which may in a measure ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1914)
"... for the purpose of rendering bacteria-free the virus contained in tonsillar and adenoidal tissues, and to prepare them for inoculation into monkeys. ..."

5. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"The author contends from the results obtained with a blister that he has obtained indications confirming his theory that the adenoidal condition is a ..."

6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"... and (3) tumors originating in the stroma (lympho-adenoidal sarcoma, fibrosarcoma). The differential diagnosis between these types is relatively easy. ..."

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