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Adenoids are an overgrowth of the glandular tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adenoids, flat feet, thyroid deficiencies and a score more reasons have been presented to explain bedwetting.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Adenoids are meant to be heard, not seen."

From Time Magazine Archive

The duty of each teacher to consult daily a card catalogue of duties, beginning with Apperception and Adenoids and going on to Vaccination, Ventilation, and the various vivacious variations on the three R's.

From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Colds and how to catch Them 83 V. Adenoids, or Mouth-Breathing: their Cause and their Consequences 103 VI.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods




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