palatine

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The palatine tonsils are on the sides of the throat, and there are also lingual tonsils on the back of the tongue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

The book was spectacularly ill timed, although it earned Apian a position as court astronomer to Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and eventually the title of imperial count palatine.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2014

The paired bones are the maxilla, palatine, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior nasal conchae bones.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The oropharynx contains two distinct sets of tonsils, the palatine and lingual tonsils.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

In 1764 he was created professor of mathematics in the palatine schools at Milan, and obtained from Pope Pius VI. release from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and authority to become a secular priest.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various