Palatine glands

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The palate glands ( Latin: glandulae palatinae ) are small salivary glands and in mammals form a continuous layer under the mucous membrane (submucosa) of the soft palate and around the uvula . They belong to the "small salivary glands" ( Glandulae salivariae minores ) and form a mucous (slimy) secretion .

In birds they are located on the roof of the oral cavity and are divided into two groups - glandulae palatinae laterales and glandulae palatinae mediales , the ducts of which can already be seen macroscopically.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Lippert: Textbook anatomy. 7th edition. Verlag Elsevier, Urban & Fischer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-437-42362-2 , p. 614.
  2. Horst E. König et al. (Ed.): Anatomie der Vögel. 2nd Edition. Schattauer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7945-2578-2 , pp. 103-104.