Pharyngeal Tonsil

Of throat and lymphatic tissue.   May also be referred to as Luschka's tonsil, adenoid, third tonsil, tonsilla adenoidea and tonsilla pharyngealis.

A collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx); "hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsils is called adenoids"; "enlarged adenoids may restrict the breathing of children".

This concept's ID is @1~30141