tonsillectomy
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- n surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy
- They flow from a surreal world where science has lost connection with reality, where bureaucracy and paperwork have no limit, where a half-hour tonsillectomy costs what an average .
- You talk about a tonsillectomy.
- Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into .