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pharyngotonsillitis

pharyngotonsillitis noun: pharyngitis and tonsillitis occurring together.

Noun

pharyngotonsillitis (uncountable)

  1. pharyngitis and tonsillitis occurring together
    • According to the Swedish guidelines for pharyngotonsillitis applying when this study was conducted, RADT was recommended when 2–4 Centor criteria were present and antibiotics were recommended when the test was positive.2015 July 4, Hedvig Gröndal et al., “Near-patient tests and the clinical gaze in decision-making of Swedish GPs not following current guidelines for sore throat – a qualitative interview study”, in...

Origin of pharyngotonsillitis

From pharyngo- + tonsillitis.

Questions about pharyngotonsillitis

What does pharyngotonsillitis mean?
Pharyngotonsillitis means pharyngitis and tonsillitis occurring together.
What part of speech is pharyngotonsillitis?
Pharyngotonsillitis is a noun.

Words near pharyngotonsillitis in the dictionary

  1. pharyngotome
  2. pharyngotomes
  3. pharyngotomies
  4. pharyngotomy
  5. pharyngotonsilitis
  6. pharyngotonsillitis
  7. pharyngotracheal
  8. pharyngotremy
  9. pharyngotympanic
  10. pharyngotympanic tube
  11. pharyngotympanic tubes

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