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Example sentences for "adenoids"

Lexicographically close words:
adductor; adductors; adelante; adenitis; adenoid; adeo; adeoque; adept; adepts; adeptus
  1. Firm pressure is then made against the vault of the naso-pharynx, and the curette is carried backwards and downwards in the mesial plane and withdrawn with the main mass of the adenoids caught in the hooks.

  2. The voice is characteristically thick and nasal, especially when adenoids are present, and in many cases the patient has a vacant and stupid expression.

  3. When the adenoids encroach upon the Eustachian cushions, the patient suffers from deafness, frequent attacks of earache, and sometimes from suppurative otitis media with a discharge from the ear.

  4. Adenoids or other sources of respiratory obstruction must be removed; and if the patient is myopic she should be provided with suitable glasses.

  5. Adenoids are frequently associated with hypertrophy of the faucial tonsils, and the patient often suffers from granular pharyngitis and chronic nasal catarrh.

  6. Among the rarer conditions attributed to adenoids are asthma, inspiratory laryngeal stridor, persistent cough, chorea, and nocturnal enuresis.

  7. When hæmorrhage takes place after the removal of adenoids and tonsils, it will generally be found that the source of it is in the tonsillar area.

  8. The removal of naso-pharyngeal adenoids is not called for simply because they are accidentally discovered to be present, nor does the need of operation depend solely on the size of the growths or the nasal obstruction they produce.

  9. It is for this reason that we try to avoid the removal of adenoids in patients under 3 years of age, or of polypi in those over 60; and that in all cases we endeavour to operate as rapidly as possible.

  10. A rugine which works in a sagittal plane is then introduced below the tumour and made to pass upwards behind it--the reverse movement of Gottstein’s curette in the removal of adenoids (Fig.

  11. Adenoids require removal whenever the symptoms attributable to them call for relief.

  12. In the unenlightened days many children must have got well of adenoids without operation, and even at the present time it by no means follows that because a child has these postnasal vegetations he must forthwith be operated on.

  13. Of the more common causes as given above, the adenoids should be removed, and the chronic catarrh which is invariably the cause of the ulcer should be cured.

  14. The presence of adenoids favors the development of ear complications.

  15. It is a crime for a parent to refuse operation if the presence of adenoids has been proved.

  16. The adenoids can be easily demonstrated to either exist or be absent.

  17. Remove adenoids and worms, if they exist.

  18. If the case is neglected, and if the adenoids have existed for a long time, the growth of the child is impaired.

  19. The diet may be at fault; adenoids are supposed by some physicians to be the cause.

  20. Foreign bodies must be removed, adenoids taken out, large tonsils excised, and malformations of the nasal bones operated upon.

  21. Adenoids always interfere with respiration, thereby depriving the child of a normal quantity of oxygen, thus rendering the blood less pure, and, as a consequence, seriously interfering with the nourishment and general health.

  22. Adenoids are associated with, and are responsible for, many of the ailments of childhood.

  23. If adenoids are found no treatment will be successful until they are removed.

  24. Mr. Snapper, adenoids or no adenoids, was a sportsman.

  25. In New York they now make it a rule to examine for adenoids every young offender against the law, before punishing him; and it is amazing how often adenoids are found, and when removed carry the child's wickedness away with them.

  26. Adenoids and divers glands are responsible for a great proportion of youthful wrongdoing; and yet other physical troubles will account for a great proportion of the rest.

  27. A very simple and harmless scraping operation will remove these adenoids entirely, and what a wonderful improvement the mouth-breather will make!

  28. How do catarrh and adenoids affect the voice?

  29. Adenoids may continue to grow, and during the years that they are present they work great mischief.

  30. The removal of septic tonsils and of adenoids is most urgently necessary, and usually involves little distress or danger.

  31. Do not try to confirm the diagnosis of adenoids by a digital examination of the nasopharynx.

  32. Attention has been directed to the real significance of adenoids and enlarged tonsils, of swollen glands and carious teeth.

  33. For the supply of available adenoids is limited, and if the surgeon hesitates to occupy himself in removing one pair for nothing, it does not follow that in the time thus saved he can be certain of getting employment upon a ten-guinea pair.

  34. But the same man would be horrified at the idea of asking a Harley Street surgeon (perhaps even more closely connected with him) to remove his adenoids for nothing.

  35. Allowing the child to "outgrow" adenoids may mean not only that he is being subjected to infection chronically but that his body is allowed to be permanently deformed and his health endangered.

  36. What extra effort adenoids mean can be ascertained by closing the nostrils for a forenoon.

  37. Adenoids are not uncommon in adults, however.

  38. Country earache is largely due to adenoids or to inflammation that quickly leads to adenoids.

  39. The indexes to adenoids and large tonsils for the teacher to read at school are: 1.

  40. Adenoids and defective vision are preventable, but not contagious.

  41. As bad teeth, enlarged tonsils, and adenoids harbor germs and putrescent matter that vitiate every incoming and outgoing breath, these defects should be immediately corrected.

  42. Again, if children must have teeth filled and pulled, eyes tested and fitted for glasses, adenoids and enlarged tonsils removed, surely the school environment offers the least affrighting spot for the tragedy.

  43. They mean interference with nourishment and prevent proper action of the lymphatic system, as adenoids prevent free breathing.

  44. Tell a boy that adenoids or weak lungs will keep him from getting a job, and you will make him a strong advocate of operation and of fresh air.

  45. In that case, also, relief through the surgeon's knife is sought and then the process is reversed: after the adenoids have been removed, the tonsils develop chronic catarrhal conditions.

  46. Chapter X Suppressive Surgical Treatment of Tonsillitis and Enlarged Adenoids The following paragraphs are taken from an article in the ~Nature Cure Magazine~ May, 1909, titled "Surgery for Tonsillitis and Adenoids.

  47. When both tonsils and adenoids have been removed, the nasal membranes will, in turn, become congested and swollen.

  48. Barrett) had not seen as many cases of adenoids in adults as he examined in Egypt in three months.

  49. Glandular tissue is rather unstable and therefore it becomes diseased easily and adenoids are therefore quite frequent.

  50. Therefore they overeat and get indigestion, catarrh, adenoids and various other ills.

  51. Colds, catarrhs and adenoids are, of course, due to improper eating extending over a long period of time.

  52. We do not know why they cause adenoids in one child and catarrh in another.

  53. While the catarrh is being firmly established adenoids are quite common.

  54. Adenoids and large tonsils should be taken from the throat by an operation.

  55. If a child has adenoids or large tonsils, an operation should be done to take them out.

  56. Adenoids and enlarged tonsils are a fruitful source of constant colds and sore throat, and their removal is advisable (see p.

  57. We are unable to see adenoids because of their position, but can be reasonably sure of their presence in children where we find symptoms resulting from mouth-breathing as described below.

  58. While in many instances arising without apparent cause, yet in others sick headache may be precipitated by indigestion, by eye-strain, by enlarged tonsils and adenoids in children, or by fatigue.

  59. Nasal obstruction leads to poor nutrition, and hence children with adenoids and enlarged tonsils are apt to be puny and weakly specimens.

  60. Any source of chronic catarrh of the nose or throat, as enlarged and diseased tonsils, adenoids in children, or nasal obstruction, favor the growth of germs and the occurrence of frequent attacks of acute catarrh or "colds.

  61. Such troubles, especially adenoids and enlarged tonsils in children, enlarged turbinates, and polypi (see Nose Disorders, p.

  62. The next day his mother whisked him off down town and had the doctor take the adenoids from behind his nose.

  63. Some are having adenoids taken out, just to make those children so strong that we can't catch them.

  64. Another common cause of headache is nasal obstruction, such as may be due to adenoids or deformities of the septum, or chronic catarrhal conditions.

  65. Unfortunately, attention to the adenoids will not remove these defects of the jaws and teeth after they have been produced.

  66. I should have hesitated to draw at such full length and in such lugubrious detail the direful possibilities and injurious effects of adenoids if its only result could have been to arouse apprehensions which could not be relieved.

  67. Harrison Allen, and myself, that some of the extraordinary dwarfing and growth-retarding effects of adenoids might be due to a reflex influence exerted on their old colleague, the pituitary body.

  68. Whether we know anything about adenoids themselves or not, we are all familiar with their handiwork.

  69. Inflammation accompanying a cold may cause this, or the growth of adenoids in the back of the throat.

  70. Adenoids represent always an overgrowth and for that reason may be removed without any possibility of hampering the proper working of the body.

  71. Experience has shown that children whose development appears to be hindered by the presence of adenoids are almost invariably benefited by having them removed.

  72. Adenoids will be described later; here they are mentioned only because they may press upon and close the Eustachian tubes.

  73. The harm done by adenoids is chiefly mechanical; they may block the Eustachian tubes, and so cause deafness, as already mentioned in Chapter IX, or they may interfere with the free movement of the air through the nasal passages.

  74. There are enough lymph nodes in the region about the throat, so that if tonsils or adenoids are removed any foreign matters that get into the body fluids will still be filtered out.

  75. The conclusion of the author is: "Here seems good reason to believe that the removal of diseased tonsils and adenoids is a factor in beneficially influencing the mental life of the school child.

  76. We may say, then, that the capacities brought out by the tapping test seem to undergo no improvement in six months after removal of adenoids and tonsils.

  77. Would the mentally normal child with adenoids and tonsils have been superior without them, and would the superior child have been still more superior?

  78. The conclusion from the data would seem to be that, within the space of six months at any rate, operation for adenoids and tonsils brings about no increase in strength of grip.

  79. It would seem then, that after a six months' interval a child who has been operated on for adenoids and tonsils will tend to show a slightly greater increase in weight than a child who continues to suffer from the defects.

  80. Simpson's results are based on a study of 571 boys of Girard College who had been operated on for adenoids and tonsils.

  81. Only those studies in which were included adenoids and tonsil conditions will be reviewed here.

  82. Operation for adenoids and tonsils does not lessen fatigueability as shown by the tapping test.

  83. Six months after operation for adenoids and tonsils, there seems to be a slight but not very reliable gain in weight as the result of the operation.

  84. The teachers at Public School 64 were asked to report any cases which had come to their notice, as being seriously afflicted with adenoids and diseased tonsils.

  85. This seems to be a rather sweeping statement in consideration of the number of intellectually superior children who suffer from adenoids and diseased tonsils.

  86. He says, "It is a well-known fact that hypertrophy of the tonsils and presence of adenoids may produce more or less dullness of the intellect in normal children.

  87. The tonsil must then be removed, also the adenoids in the throat, to enjoy proper mental and physical health.

  88. Tonsils or adenoids may interfere with breathing in older children.

  89. The removal of adenoids is simple, and carries with it only temporary pain and no danger.

  90. Adenoids not only obstruct breathing and weaken the whole system through lack of adequate air, but they also press upon the blood vessels and nerves of the head and interfere with normal brain development.

  91. Earache is largely due to adenoids or to inflammation that rapidly leads to adenoids, and Mr. William H.

  92. Figure 74 shows a photograph of a schoolgirl just before an operation and the characteristic expression due to adenoids is plainly marked.

  93. The removal of adenoids is a simple operation, lasting not over a minute, and the result of the operation is in some cases almost miraculous.

  94. Adenoids are situated at the back of the nose, and like the tonsils are composed of spongy tissue.

  95. If a child breathes through his mouth, if he snores at night, keeps his mouth open and has a dull, apathetic expression, his nose and throat should be examined, and if advisable his tonsils and adenoids should be removed.


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