Submandibular gland

A salivary gland on each side of the lower jaw.


One of a pair of salivary glands situated below the parotid glands. Their ducts (Wharton s ducts) open in two papillae under the tongue, on either side of the frenulum.


One of the salivary glands, a mixed tubuloalveolar gland about the size of a walnut that lies in the digastric triangle beneath the mandible. Its main duct (Wharton’s duct) opens at the side of the frenulum linguae.


 


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