sublingual gland
Glandula sublingualis
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
- chorda tympani
- Arterial supply
- sublingual artery
- Lymphatic drainage
- submandibular lymph nodes
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2807
- TA98
- A05.1.02.008
- FMA
- 59791
- UBERON
- 0001832
- Wikidata
- Q692200