"tonsillolith" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009 September 1, Elizabeth Svoboda, “In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea”, in New York Times",
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        "A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils."
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        "(dentistry) A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils."
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "calculus",
          "word": "Tonsillenstein"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "calculus",
          "word": "tonsillolito"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "calculus",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "tonsilolito"
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  "word": "tonsillolith"
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        "(dentistry) A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils."
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      "word": "Tonsillenstein"
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