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The salivary glands in many vertebrates including mammals are exocrine glands that produce saliva through a system of ducts.Humans have three paired major salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual), as well as hundreds of minor salivary glands. [1]
The sublingual gland (glandula sublingualis) is a seromucous polystomatic exocrine gland.Located underneath the oral diaphragm (diaphragma oris), the sublingual gland is the smallest and most diffuse of the three major salivary glands of the oral cavity, with the other two being the submandibular and parotid.
Human Von Ebner's gland. Von Ebner's glands, also called Ebner's glands or gustatory glands, are exocrine glands found in the mouth. More specifically, they are serous salivary glands which reside adjacent to the moats surrounding the circumvallate and foliate papillae just anterior to the posterior third of the tongue in its submucosa, anterior to the terminal sulcus.
A gland is a cell or an organ in an animal's body that produces and secretes different substances that the organism needs, either into the bloodstream or into a body cavity or outer surface. [1]
The Bartholin's glands (named after Caspar Bartholin the Younger; also called Bartholin glands or greater vestibular glands) are two pea-sized compound alveolar glands [2] located slightly posterior and to the left and right of the opening of the vagina. [3]
Blockage of the main parotid duct, or one of its branches, is often a primary cause of acute parotitis, with further inflammation secondary to bacterial superinfection.The blockage may be from a salivary stone, a mucous plug, or, more rarely, by a tumor, usually benign.
First drawing of the meibomian gland by Heinrich Meibom.Year 1666. The glands were mentioned by Galen in 200 AD [3] and were described in more detail by Heinrich Meibom (1638–1700), a German physician, in his work De Vasis Palpebrarum Novis Epistola in 1666.
Gastric glands are glands in the lining of the stomach that play an essential role in the process of digestion.Their secretions make up the digestive gastric juice.The gastric glands open into gastric pits in the mucosa.