Are your tonsils as useless as they seem?
Natural Selections · Natural Selections
September 26, 20194m 59s
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(Sep 26, 2019) When infected, your tonsils may be useful to doctors to keep up their bottom line, and to Popsicle vendors to provide the means to soothe recovering children. But when healthy, they also have a use as part of the front-line in the human immune system.
Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss an oft-removed portion of the human anatomy.
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