tonsil

BTO:0001387 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

The human palatine tonsils and the nasopharyngeal tonsil are lymphoepithelial tissues located in strategic areas of the oropharynx and nasopharynx, although most commonly, the term tonsils refers to the palatine tonsils that can be seen in the back of the throat. — BTO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Lymphatic system > Tonsils 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	3	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Lymphatic system > Tonsils 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	324	ORGANISM
PREGO	tonsil	1	TAXON

Broader habitats

lymphoid tissue BTO:0000753
Lymphatic system habitatmech:GOLD.a792be9b27
Lymphatic system habitatmech:GOLD.be39fe9a0e

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
Streptococcus suis `NCBITaxon:1307`	PREGO	1	1

Also called

Mandel — PREGO
Mandels — PREGO
Tonsils — GOLD
tonsils — PREGO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001387 'tonsil' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the BTO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Lymphatic system > Tonsils (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3d15e0e2b7)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to BTO:0001387 'tonsil' (EXACT). GOLD's Lymphatic system > Tonsils. BTO:0001387 tonsil is the exact site. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.a3afe9ce2e)
REVIEW 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. PREGO asserts BTO:0001387 tonsil directly; the self-grounding is correct. Endorsed to complete the tonsil record. (source concept habitatmech:PREGO.9896307fb0)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.