Trismus, or lockjaw, is a painful condition in which the jaws do not open fully. As well as pain, trismus can lead to problems with eating, speaking, and oral hygiene as a person cannot open their ...

Tonsillitis is an infection of your tonsils, which are two masses of tissue at the back of your throat. Your tonsils act as filters, trapping germs that could otherwise enter your airways and cause ...

A variety of bacterial and viral infections can cause tonsillitis. You may experience symptoms like sore throat and pain while swallowing. Your tonsils are the two small organs made of lymphoid tissue ...

A 24-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a three-day history of worsening sore throat, pain with swallowing and fever. She had been seen by her primary care physician one day ...