Parotid lymph nodes
The parotid lymph nodes ( Lymponodi [Lnn.] Parotidei or Lnn. Preauriculares or Nodi lymphoidei [Nll.] Preauriculares ) are a group of lymph nodes in the head area. They are the people on the parotid gland ( parotid embedded) or in the glandular tissue in many other mammals below the jaw joint on the rear edge of the mandible covered in whole or in part from the parotid gland. In comparative anatomy, they are also grouped together as the Lymphocentrum parotideum .
In humans , the parotid lymph nodes receive lymph from the parotid gland, eyelids , conjunctiva , parts of the nose and the external auditory canal . In domestic animals they also receive lymph from the superficial skull bones of the back of the head, the jaw joint , in pigs and cattle also from the upper part of the oral cavity , parts of the nasal cavity, on the other hand, are only filtered by these lymph nodes in sheep and goats.
literature
- Detlev Drenckhahn: Human anatomy, macroscopic anatomy, embryology and histology . Elsevier, Urban & FischerVerlag, 2004, p. 176. ISBN 978-3-4374-2351-2
- Uwe Gille: Cardiovascular and immune system, Angiologia . In: F.-V. Salomon et al. (Ed.): Anatomy for veterinary medicine . Enke-Verlag Stuttgart, 2nd edition 2008, pp. 404–463. ISBN 978-3-8304-1075-1