submandibular gland
Glandula submandibularis
In 4 atlases
Definition
Either of the paired compound tubuloalveolar (aka tubuloacinar) major salivary glands composed of both serous and mucous secretory cells and situated beneath the mandible.
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
- glandular branches of facial artery
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2810
- TA98
- A05.1.02.011
- FMA
- 55093
- UBERON
- 0001736
- Wikidata
- Q579886