These questions are best answered by the process and results of an "adenoid party," which was given especially for the benefit of this book, every step and symptom of which were carefully studied.
In a few cases it does recur; frequently either because it was not desirable to make a complete removal of the adenoidtissue or because the surgeon was careless.
The seven children pictured here were discovered by their school physician to have moderately large adenoid growths,--one boy having enlarged tonsils also.
Usually the adenoid growths atrophy or dry up after the age of puberty.
Children's Aid Society's school and to the ice cream that follows each adenoid party.
Thus, nasal obstruction may be unrelieved: foci of suppuration may be left in the accessory sinuses: portions of adenoid growth or tonsils left behind may continue to give trouble: malignant growths may not be extirpated freely enough.
It is useless to attack such growths as true fibroma of the naso-pharynx with an ordinary wire snare, or such an instrument as a pair of adenoid forceps.
There is no need to attempt removal of adenoid tissue on the lateral walls.
As the instrument is withdrawn from the pharynx, its cage will be found to contain the adenoid growth, removed en bloc and generally complete (Fig.
Little ones who habitually breathe loud or snore in their sleep may be troubled with anadenoid growth.
Adenoid growths in the pharynx and particularly abnormal conditions of the nose will cause it.
Hypertrophy of the tonsils# is most commonly met with in children between five and ten years of age, and is often associated with adenoid vegetations in the naso-pharynx and chronic thickening of the pharyngeal mucous membrane.
A similar difficulty is experienced by children withadenoid growths.
If, after doing this regularly, the child is still unable to breathe properly through the nose, it is probable that an adenoid growth is present.
Do not wait too long in the hope that the child will outgrow the condition, for the effect of adenoid growths persisting throughout childhood may injure the person for life.
The tissue combining them is known as adenoid or gland-like tissue.
A secondadenoid appendix, representing the globular saccus lymphaticus of the rabbit, is derived from the caecum at the ileo-colic junction.
The terminal segment of the pouch is reduced to an appendix, with smooth mucosa containing adenoid tissue, as in the rabbit.
This lymphoid or adenoid tissue in certain forms is especially well developed at the ileo-colic junction, forming the lymphatic sac of some rodents, as lepus (cf.
The main line of interest in the present experiment lay with the relation of adenoid and tonsil defects to general intelligence.
An important group (of mental defects) is due to adenoid vegetations in the posterior pharynx.
Repeated attacks are said to contribute to the production of adenoid growths.
A very large majority of these coughs are caused by adenoid growths in the back part of the nose.
Adenoid children are, as a rule, in better health during the warm, equable, summer weather than during the changeable, uncertain weather we have in the winter months.
Adenoid growths, which contribute to the nervousness of a naturally nervous child, should be removed.
If the child continues to be "catarrhal," despite a course of this treatment, it would be well to investigate whether any adenoids or adenoid tissue exist in the naso-pharynx.
When this adenoid tissue grows abnormally large it forms what are known as "adenoids.
This cushion is formed of what doctors call "adenoid tissue" and is similar to that which makes up the tonsils.
Thus, the view originally advanced by Hofmeister,[221] in which special stress is laid upon the functional activity of the leucocytes of the adenoid tissue surrounding the intestine, demands some consideration.
In apparent harmony with this view is the fact that the leucocytes in the adenoid tissue of the intestine are greatly increased in number during digestion.
Sleeping with the mouth open and the head thrown back often attends chronic enlargement of the tonsils and the presence of adenoid growths in young children, although it may be seen in other affections which make breathing difficult.
A chronic mastoiditis (inflammation of the middle ear) often follows measles, scarlet fever, adenoid infection, and inflammation of the tonsils.
It is nothing less than criminal for heedless parents to allow adenoid growths to remain in the child's post-nasal pharynx.
This being the case, it is no longer possible for children in the public schools to continue their studies when suffering from diseased tonsils and enlargedadenoid vegetations.
This adenoidtissue acts as a filter for the fluid passing through it.
Closely related to the tonsils are the masses of adenoid tissue at the back of the throat which frequently grow to an undue size in children, and are then known as adenoids.
At various places along the lymphatics are little spongelike lumps of tissue known as lymph nodes; the particular spongy substance of which they are composed is called adenoid tissue.
There are still three affections about which we must say a few words--rickets, adenoid vegetations, and scrofula.
If the bodily condition discovered complicates or aggravates the mental deficiency, as adenoid vegetations may do, he will prescribe the proper treatment.
Sometimes it happens that the adenoid tissues become affected before the tonsils.
After the tonsils have been removed, the morbid matter which they were eliminating usually finds the nearest and easiest outlet through the adenoid tissues and nasal membranes.
It is said to be due to a partial asphyxia during sleep from adenoid vegetation.
If these should occur, obstructed breathing due to adenoid vegetations is sometimes at work as a contributory cause.
Removal of tonsils and adenoid vegetations might conceivably cure an enuresis which is nocturnal, it cannot account for an incontinence which spreads to the day.
Night-terrors are said to be aggravated by nasal obstruction due to adenoid vegetations.
Certainly the connection of rheumatism with catarrhal infections of the mucous membranes and adenoid enlargements of all sorts is a close one.
A little cocaine was applied, and with a single sweep of the curette he was minus an adenoid on the third tonsil, a tonsil of Luscha.
From the posterior nasal passage of a singer I removed nine largeadenoid tumors.
A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adenoid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
