tonsillectomy

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Had my tonsillectomy when I was 4 due to a severe tonsillitis infection.

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surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy

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noun

surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy

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noun

surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy

Example sentences

Had my tonsillectomy when I was 4 due to a severe tonsillitis infection.

I suspect, because removal is the "tonsillectomy of abdominal surgeries," they just all default to yanking it out.

Ice-pick lobotomies, tonsillectomy mills, boob job factories in strip malls....all have happened in recent US history.

The anesthesiologist for a family member's out patient tonsillectomy was the sole out of network component in the procedure.

It takes the worth of doctors of his time for granted, mentioning tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy: at least the former was much overprescribed then, I don't know about the latter.

No one has the intellectual property to tonsillectomy either, and you're free to try operating on your own, but you will get into trouble real fast if you advertised you doing it to public as a fix to some ailment.

By your logic, tonsillitis shouldn't be curable by removing the tonsils, because if it were, then shooting someone in the mouth with a shotgun ought to produce similar effects to performing a tonsillectomy.