third tonsil

Questions about third tonsil

What does third tonsil mean?

third tonsil means "a collection of lymphatic tissue in the throat behind the uvula (on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx)".

What is another word for third tonsil?

Close synonyms include pharyngeal tonsil, adenoid, Luschka's tonsil, tonsilla pharyngealis, tonsilla adenoidea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is third tonsil a common word?

third tonsil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.