The tissue combining them is known as adenoid or gland-like tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The cancer caused by this new cancer gene is called adenoid cystic carcinoma and is a slow-growing b.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The only pretty girl whose prettiness appealed to Rowcliffe had an "adenoid" mouth which he held to be a drawback.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Sisters] Reference

GRIFFIN: I don't know what an adenoid is, but I'd like to date one.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2007] Reference

Usually the adenoid growths atrophy or dry up after the age of puberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

Repeated attacks are said to contribute to the production of adenoid growths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Children's Aid Society's school and to the ice cream that follows each adenoid party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

He has a ribbon-counter, adenoid voice production that no really fine artist could afford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

A very large majority of these coughs are caused by adenoid growths in the back part of the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The patient, a girl, aged five years and ten months, suffered from hypertrophied tonsils and post-nasal adenoid growths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference

It is nothing less than criminal for heedless parents to allow adenoid growths to remain in the child's post-nasal pharynx.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

He was crooning from 'A Man Needs a Maid, 'sounding less like Neil Young and more like Cliff Richard with an adenoid problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

Researchers discover new cancer gene that causes adenoid cystic carcinoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The raw scallop was a raw scallop, like chewing a dolphin's cold adenoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

In minor salivary glands, adenoid cystic carcinoma usually affects the palate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emaxhealth] Reference

Thetford, Vt., of adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer of the head and neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference

Then in April, she was diagnosed with adenoid cystic caranoma (a cancer of the neck).    From Wordnik.com.  [GopherSports.com Headline News]

In the intervals between these main masses are smaller collections of adenoid tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference

At the conclusion of the film Kedzie was saddened by a ballad sung by an adenoid tenor.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

He announced on his Web site Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Tonsillectomy is completed at the same time as an adenoidectomy, which is the removal of the adenoid glands.    From Wordnik.com.  [News 8 Austin Top Stories] Reference

Beneath the mucous membrane on the oral surface of the soft palate is a considerable amount of adenoid tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference

Ph.D. Salivary gland carcinomas: mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC), adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC), adenocarcinoma (ACC).    From Wordnik.com.  [National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases] Reference

WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) morning anchor Vince Vitrano is off the air while his son Max recovers from tonsil and adenoid surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

The tonsils form part of a circular band of adenoid tissue which guards the opening into the digestive and respiratory tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference

He announced on his Web site Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma on the lower region of his tongue.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Mr. Snapper, who, I should imagine, was the adenoid victim, looked first at me and next at Timothy, and then blew his nose vigorously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25] Reference

It consists of a fold of mucous membrane enclosing muscular fibers, an aponeurosis, vessels, nerves, adenoid tissue, and mucous glands.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth] Reference

"Sometimes it happens that the adenoid tissues become affected before the tonsils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Cure] Reference

He had adenoid trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthly Possessions]

She had no idea what an adenoid was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn About Eleanor] Reference

Baruch atah adenoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fixed-Gear Theme Vacations: Getting There is Half the Fun, Filming It is the Other Half] Reference

And adenoid hypertrophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News] Reference