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n. Acute inflammation of the tonsils and the surrounding tissue, often leading to the formation of an abscess.

n. A painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever.

n. An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

n. Tonsillitis; specifically, a deep suppurative tonsillitis.

n. a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis

"He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech."

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