What's the difference between tonsil and tonsilla?
Tonsil
Definition:
(n.) One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were hemorrhages in sclera, gums and left tonsillar area and a grayish exudate on right tonsil.
(2) The sites involved primarily were the nasal cavity, tonsil and pharynx and about one-fourth of the total cases showed extensive involvement of two anatomical sites at initial presentation.
(3) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
(4) Enlargement of the jugulodigastric node is most often associated with tonsillitis, and the spinal accessory group of nodes with adenoiditis.
(5) The first manifestation was often extranodular (9 patients tonsil, 8 parotid gland, 8 base of tongue, 7 nasopharynx).
(6) With monoclonal antibody AA1, immunostaining was entirely specific for mast cell granules, and there was negligible background staining in a range of tissues including lung, tonsil, colon, gastric mucosa, skin, and pituitary.
(7) Present results supplement and expand earlier data and support the practical value of analysis of short-term cultured tonsil lymphocytes.
(8) Next, tonsil cells were separated into two fractions relatively rich in either T or B cells.
(9) These infections include chronic otitis media, chronic sinusitis and mastoiditis, chronic recurrent tonsillitis and lung abscesses.
(10) The major cerebral lobes, diencephalon, brain stem, cerebellum, cerebellar tonsils, and spinal cord were studied.
(11) It was suggested that a positive provocation test is accompanied by an increase in fibrinolytic activity in the circulating blood of patients with focal infection of the tonsil, and the increase in fibrinolytic activity is closely related to the positiveness of the provocation test.
(12) Conversely, the tonsil core bacteria with the highest bacterial concentrations are more likely to be present on the tonsillar surface and the greater the bacterial concentration, the more likely the bacteria are to be found in most if not all areas of the tonsil core.
(13) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
(14) Thus, IL-4 mRNA has markedly different kinetics and intensity of expression in spleen, peripheral blood, and tonsil.
(15) Cefprozil (CFPZ, BMY-28100) granules were administered to 20 children with bacterial infections: acute tonsillitis 8, acute bronchitis 10, purulent lymphadenitis 1, urinary tract infection 1.
(16) The histopathological picture of tonsils removed from positive cases of toxoplasmosis showed characteristics of toxoplasmic lymphadenitis.
(17) Despite the small number of subjects, the facial morphology of the CF children showed a similar pattern to that of children with nasal respiratory obstruction due to enlarged adenoids or tonsils.
(18) All of the lymphoid tissues investigated (bone marrow, thymus, lymph node, spleen, tonsil, adenoid) synthesize complement components in different patterns.
(19) The clinical efficacy and safety of cefixime (CFIX), a new oral cephalosporin, were compared with those of cefroxadine (CXD) in patients suffering from acute lacunar tonsillitis in a double blind study.
(20) The CD40 molecule was constitutively phosphorylated not only in human tonsil B cells but also in transfectants expressing CD40.
Tonsilla
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The CT appearances of expansions due to chondroma, tuberculosis, hypertrophic lingual tonsilla, fluid-filled laryngocele, aberrant thyroid adenoma, and chronic granulomatous inflammation are described.
(2) Homogenates and subcellular lymphycyte fractions of human tonsilla palatina contained proteolytic enzymes operating in slightly acidic (pH 3.6) and slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) media.
(3) Whereas 90 per cent of strains of E rhusiopathiae exhibited strong activity with N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, positive reactions were observed for this enzyme in only 24 per cent of strains of E tonsillae.
(4) Antigens contact immunocompetent cells at the tonsilla pulmonis.
(5) The lecture presents information on the development of the immune organs in human foetus (thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, tonsilla, appendix, Peyer's plaques and blood) on the basis of literature and author's own data.
(6) It supplies the lobulus semilunaris inferior, the lobulus gracilis, the lobulus biventer, the tonsilla cerebelli, and, in the vermis, the clivus, the tuber, the pyramis, the uvula and the nodulus.
(7) The tonsilla palatina, belonging to the gut-associated lymphoepithelial organs (GALT), shows close morphological and functional correlation between the lymphatic tissue of mesenchymal origin and the endodermal epithelium of the second pharyngeal pouch.
(8) These results support previous DNA-DNA hybridisation studies and suggest that E tonsillae is a new species of the genus Erysipelothrix.
(9) The widespread metastases in liver; skin and tonsilla are remarkable.
(10) Morphological changes of the thymus, spleen, tonsilla, lymph nodes and lungs are described.
(11) Moreover antigen was detected in the mucosa of the small intestine (85.2%), bone marrow (81.6%), spleen (79.6%), thymus (66.7%), mesenteric lymph nodes (60.4%), tonsilla palatina (58.5%), smooth muscle cells of the tunica muscularis of the small intestine (9.3%) and myocardium (1.9%).
(12) Data on localization of the proteolytic enzymes in subcellular lymphocyte fractions of human tonsilla were obtained.
(13) The enzymatic activities of 39 strains of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and 34 of E tonsillae were determined with the API ZYM system.
(14) This study, therefore, describes the fine structure and tissue organization of tonsilla lingualis in Macaca fascicularis.
(15) Rather high incidence of combined and mixed infections is outlined, various localizations of main lesions are described (lungs, brain, gastro-intestinal tract, tonsilla and other organs and tissues).
(16) Pathohistologically tuberculosis of the tonsillae was found only in 3 cases.
(17) In the human tonsilla CK-BB was localized in lymphatic and epithelial tissues, CK-MM in the muscle fibers.
(18) By manifestations the observations were divided into two groups: 1) SI with a pronounced generalization including a pharyngeal one (31 cases), 4 of them with a rash (scarlet fever); extrapharyngeal (7 cases), 6 of them with a rash (scarlet fever); 2) SI without pronounced generalization (localized) including 33 cases with the involvement of the lungs and tonsilla and having an ordinary course and 11 cases of a sudden death.
(19) The isoenzyme patterns in single sections of tonsilla were in parallel determined by the immunotitration assay.