Here it attacks a spongy group of glands, like a third tonsil, which swells up until it almost blocks up the nose and makes you breathe through your mouth.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Such matters interest the Oxford man quite as little as the question how he comes by a tonsil or a vermiform appendix.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin
One tonsil is often more swollen than the other, and the corresponding anterior pillar of the fauces more prominent.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson