Salivary glands

SALIVARY GLANDS
  • A thick layer of stratified squamous epithelium covers the free surface.
  • The salivary glands run the whole length of the hard palate, the groups of glands merging to form one mass of glandular tissue under the epithelium.
  • Lymphoid tissue is found in most glands.
  • The salivary glands are:
    • Maxillary - in the roof of the mouth
    • Palatine - on either side of the nasal opening in the roof of the mouth
    • Apheno-pteryoid glands - in the roof of the pharynx on each side of the common opening for the eustachian tubes
    • Anterior sub-mandible glands
    • Posterior sub-mandibular glands
    • Lingual glands - in the tongue
    • Crico-arytenoid glands - around the glottis
    • Small gland in the angle of the mouth.
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