The tonsils are right before your tonge. If you open your mouth you can see them, they are 2 big bumps on the left and the right side.
The tonsils are two small, rounded masses of glandular tissue located on either side of the throat. The tonsils are part of the lymphoid system, and produce infection-fighting antibodies against bacteria and viruses entering through the throat. You can usually see the tonsils by looking into your child's throat using a flashlight.
No they are at the back of your throat, your adenoids are at the back of your nasal cavity.
The simplest lymphoid organs that are found at the entrance of the pharynx are the tonsils. There are three pairs of tonsils in the human body: the palatine tonsils, located on the sides of the throat, the lingual tonsils, located at the base of the tongue, and the pharyngeal tonsils, also known as adenoids, located at the back of the nasal cavity. These tonsils help in filtering and trapping pathogens that enter the body through the mouth and nose.
Glands at the back of the throat, the tonsils.
Pharyngeal tonsils are a bunch of lymphatic tissue in the back of the throat behind the ulvua. If these happen to become enlarged in small children they can cut off their airway.
back of the throat next to the tongue but not attached
The tonsils are located in your throat at the back of your nasal cavity and tongue.
The oropharynx (which includes the back one-third of the tongue, the back of the throat and the tonsils).
lingual tonsils
No, it stays at the tonsils.
Grant supposedly had cancer (carcinoma ) of the tongue and tonsils. There was no treatments back then.
Unfortuntely tonsils do have the possibility of growing back, but strep affects the tonsils AND throat.
There are FIVE pairs of tonsils in the pharynx or throat, though the exact number will differ depending on the textbook:Nasal (lymphatic tissue in the nose)Adenoids/Pharangeal/Luschka (nasopharynx)Palatine (oropharynx)Tubal (pharynx side of the auditory tubes)Lingual (oropharynx)Note: the cerebellar tonsil is a structure in the brain.
The tonsils are two small, rounded masses of glandular tissue located on either side of the throat. The tonsils are part of the lymphoid system, and produce infection-fighting antibodies against bacteria and viruses entering through the throat. You can usually see the tonsils by looking into your child's throat using a flashlight.
back of the throat and tonsils
They can - tonsils are part of the throat, but do not comprise all of your throat. Since even if your tonsils are taken out, the rest of your throat remains, so you can still acquire an abscess on it.
located at the back of the throat