Anatomy Of Throat Tonsils

Tonsils are located at the back and sides. Your throat includes your esophagus windpipe trachea voice box larynx tonsils and epiglottis.

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The tonsils palatine tonsils are a pair of soft tissue masses located at the rear of the throat pharynx.

Anatomy of throat tonsils. From asymmetric tonsils or lingula pharyngeal a pharyngeal cancer can be suspected. These are known as the palatine tonsils. There is one tonsil located on each side.

One tonsil is located on the left side of the throat and the other is located on the right side. Larynx also known as the voice box the larynx is a cylindrical grouping of. Tonsils are located on either side of the tongue in the back of the mouth.

1 3 8 image 1. Larynx is located about 5 inches below the pharynx of the throat. Different parts of the throat adenoids.

The most basic parts of throat anatomy. The tonsils play a role in protecting the body against respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Tonsils play a role in the bodys immune response.

Tonsils typically go unnoticed until they become enlarged and sometimes painful during episodes of infection or tonsillitis. The throat contains the. Pharynx is the muscle lined space that connects the nose and mouth to the larynx and esophagus.

The throat is positioned in the anterior part of the neck. Each tonsil is composed of tissue similar to lymph nodes covered by pink mucosa like. Throat anatomy gross the throat can be divided into 3 main parts.

Symmetrically enlarged and reddened tonsils are seen in acute inflammation. The areas that will be discussed here are as follows. Trachea trachea is commonly called as windpipe and it transports air from the larynx till the bronchioles of the lungs.

Parts of a throat larynx larynx is also known as voice box without which you cannot speak or sing. 2 this is the uppermost part of the throat that begins from the base of the tongue which is a third of the tongue through the oropharyngeal inlet the tonsils down to the vallecular which is the space between the tongue and epiglottis. The palatine tonsils are located at the back of the throat.

Each tonsil consists of a network of crypts pits. Pharynx larynx vocal cords adenoids tonsils epiglottis uvula and trachea. In chronic inflammation tonsils can be shrunk.

Tonsils and adenoids made up of lymph tissue. Normal tonsils can be small and not visible or quite prominent when checked in a mirror picture 2.

Normal Throat And Tonsils