 Whether to collectively call all these a single tonsil or separate tonsils is to an extent an arbitrary decision.There also normally is a good amount of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) present between all these tonsils (intertonsillar) around the ring, and more of this lymphoid tissue can variably be found more or less throughout at least the naso- and oropharynx.The tubal tonsils usually develops from an accumulation of lymphoid tissue in the pharyngeal tonsil.