ton's il

A prominent body situated (one on each side) between the pillars of the fauces, about half an inch long and a third of an inch wide and thick. On its free surface are numerous openings leading into lymphoid crypts, between which are a number of lymph follicles together with lymphoid ti ue, cerebellar t's. See amygdalae cerebelli, under amygdala. Ijuschka's t. See pharyngeal t. palatine t. See t. pharyngeal t. Lymphoid ti ue on the posterior superior wall of the pharynx, limited on each side by the eustachian tube. [Lat., tonsilla, almond.]