The weight of the parotid and submaxillary glands increased 1.7 and 2.7 times, respectively. When rats were fed 4% pancreation heated to 100% for 3 h no enlargement of the glands occurred ...

A PREVIOUS publication has described the phenomenon of a symmetrical enlargement of the submaxillary glands in the aged. 1 In 22 out of 100 persons (50 men and 50 women) between the ages of ...

THE purpose of this paper is to report a physiologic mass in the floor of the mouth, an accessory submaxillary gland.Although textbooks on anatomy 1 2 3 describe "frequently found" parotid tissue ...

Venous blood drains into the deep lingual vein. These lymph nodes filter lymph from the submaxillary (salivary) gland, tongue, mouth, lips, cheek, nose and conjunctiva (the membrane that covers ...

The three main salivary glands are the parotid, the submandibular and the submaxillary glands. These major glands and 600 other minor salivary glands secrete about 1.5L of saliva per day.