Talk:Pharyngeal tonsil

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The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica is a good book and all, but should a medical source be quoted when it is 95 years out of date?

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[edit] Bad heading

I broke up the article into sections, but am still not happy:

The heading is poor: excessive and entirely unnecessary use of medical jargon. The beginning should be something any idiot (like me) could easilly follow.

Could someone with medical training, who can also write in common speach, write a new intro, and then please move the medical textbook description down into the next first subsection? Tom Lougheed 23:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Negative skew of article

This article paints an almost entirely negative view of the adenoids. Surely immunology has moved on from the days of "dunno what they're for, let's have them out". 80% of this article describes what can go wrong with them. Surely we know more about their positive function these days? (I came here to find out!)


[edit] Insignificance of 'cultural significance'

Not to single this page out for abuse, but i did a google search on "adenoid" already knowing that one of the first results returned would be a wikipedia article with a pretentious and unnecessary note about the organ's appearance in _Gravity's Rainbow_. For my money, this section of this article is a perfect example of one of the major problems with Wikipedia. Not only is this kind of pop culture trivia useless to anyone who wants to know something about the function of the adenoids, it wastes resources for the entire wikipedia project and fails to enhance anyone's understanding of _Graviy's Rainbow_ itself. I would suggest deleting the entire "cultural significance" section on this page, as well as the vast majority of the "trivia" or "appearance in popular culture" sections on most wikipedia pages. R0m23 19:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Histology

Don't think this makes sense:

Most people's adenoids are not even in use after a person's third year, but if they cause problems they must be taken out or they may otherwise shrink.

This also contradicts the comments made in the adenoidectomy article. Sam Dutton (talk) 21:16, 11 March 2008 (UTC)