tonsil

See also tonsils

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtɒn.səl/
• (US) IPA: /ˈtɑn.səl/
• Rhymes: -ɒnsəl

Etymology

From Latin tonsilla, compare French tonsille.

Noun

tonsil (plural tonsils)

1. (anatomy, immunology) Either of a pair of small masses of lymphoid tissue that lie on each side of the throat and that help protect the body against infection; palatine tonsil.
2. (anatomy, immunology) Any of various small masses of lymphoid tissues, including palatine tonsils, adenoids and lingual tonsils.

Synonyms

• tonsilla

Hyponyms

• cerebellar tonsil
• faucial tonsil
• lingual tonsil
• palatine tonsil
• pharyngeal tonsil
• adenoid

Derived terms

Derived terms

tonsillar tonsillectomy tonsillitis tonsillolith

tonsil hockey, tonsil tennis to the tonsils, up to the tonsils tubal tonsil

Translations

palatine tonsil

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: لوزة (ar) (láwza) f
• Armenian: նշիկ (hy) (nšik), նշագեղձ (hy) (nšageġj), (colloquial) գլանդ (hy) (gland)
• Bulgarian: сливица (bg) (slívica) f
• Catalan: amígdala (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扁桃體 (cmn), 扁桃体 (cmn) (biǎntáotǐ), 扁桃腺 (cmn) (biǎntáoxiàn)

• Czech: krční mandle (cs) f
• Danish: mandel (da) c
• Dutch: keelamandel (nl), tonsill (nl)
• Esperanto: tonsilo (eo)
• Finnish: nielurisa (fi)
• French: amygdale (fr) f
• German: Mandel (de) f, Tonsille (de) f
• Hebrew: שקדים (he) (shaqdim)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: tonsilo (io)
• Italian: tonsilla (it) f

• Japanese: 扁桃腺 (ja) (へんとうせん, hentōsen)
• Korean: 구개편도 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاڵوو (ku) (alu)

• Norwegian: mandel (no) m
• Polish: migdałek (pl) m
• Portuguese: tonsila (pt) f, amígdala (pt) f
• Romansch: mandel (rm) m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), mandla (rm) f (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: гланда (ru) (glánda) f, миндалевидная железа (ru) (mindal'evídnaja žel'ezá) f, миндалина (ru) (mindálina) f
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: amígdala (es) f, amígdala palatina (es) f
• Swedish: tonsill (sv) c, halsmandel (sv) c
• Turkish: bademcik (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: slugamügdal (vo)

any of the lymphoid masses

• Bulgarian: сливица (bg) (slívica) f
• Czech: mandle (cs) f
• Finnish: risa (fi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاڵوو (ku) (alu)

• Russian: гланда (ru) (glánda) f
• Spanish: amígdala (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: bajame (sq)
• Dutch: amandel (nl) m, keelamandel (nl) m
• Italian: tonsilla (it) f

• Norwegian: mandel (no) m
• Portuguese: amígdala (pt) f, tônsila (pt) f (in medical use)
• Serbo-Croatian: krajnik m

References

• tonsil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913