major salivary gland

Definition

One of the three largest glands of the oral cavity that secrete most of the saliva, including the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands.

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/).

Sub-structures

• (Accessory parotid gland)
• parotid duct
• parotid gland
• submandibular duct
• sublingual gland
• submandibular gland

Identifiers

TA2

2799

TA98

A05.1.02.002

FMA

59788

UBERON

0001829

Wikidata

Q29554898