ADENOID
\ˈadənˌɔ͡ɪd], \ˈadənˌɔɪd], \ˈa_d_ə_n_ˌɔɪ_d]\
Definitions of ADENOID
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Alt. of Adenoidal
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A swelling produced by overgrowth of the adenoid tissue in the roof of the pharynx; - usually in pl.
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Alt. of Adenoidal
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A swelling produced by overgrowth of the adenoid tissue in the roof of the pharynx; - usually in pl.
By Noah Webster.
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A spongy growth in the passage leading from the nose to the throat, often causing difficulty in breathing: usually.
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In the form of a gland; of or relating to glands.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Gland-like, adeniform, lymphoid; noting a form of connective tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils, solitary and aggregated nodules of the intestine, red bone-marrow, and elsewhere; it consists of a connective-tissue framework, or reticulum, containing masses of round cells (lymphocytes) in its interstices. 2. In the plural, hypertrophy of the lymphoid nodules in the posterior wall of the nasopharynx, the pharyngeal or Luschka's tonsil.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Adeniform.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Resembling a gland in structure; as a glandular tumor. See adenoma.
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Pertaining to glands. In 1860 His applied the term to the feltlike or reticular connective tissue forming the framework of lymphatic nodes and other lymphoid structures. See a. tissue, under tissue.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
