Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss an oft-removed portion of the human anatomy. Martha Foley: Do you have your tonsils, still? I mean, we’re about the same age when they used to take ...

These are known as tonsillar crypts. Designed to capture and trap possible microbial invaders, tonsillar crypts are a natural feature of tonsil anatomy. They also bring us (at last!) to the ...