left sublingual gland

Digestive

3D model: left sublingual gland
left sublingual gland
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In 4 atlases

Definition

The small mucin-producing salivary glands in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue, anterior to the submandibular gland.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Relations

Innervation
left chorda tympani
Arterial supply
sublingual artery
Lymphatic drainage
submandibular lymph nodes

Neighbouring structures

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Identifiers

FMA
59805
Wikidata
Q66556220