ENT, ILLUSTRATION

Anatomy of the upper airways.
The location of the tonsils is represented : palatine tonsils at the back of the palate, lingual tonsil at the basis of the tongue, pharyngeal tonsils at the level of the rhinopharynx.
A tonsillitis is an inflammation of the palatine tonsils ; the vegetations (or adenoides) correspond to a hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsils.

See. images 0610807 for the anatomy of the mouth, 0610607 for the location of the palatine and lingual tonsils, 0610707 for the tonsillitis, 0610907 and 0611007 for the position of 3 types of tonsils.