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Submandibular Gland

"Submandibular Gland" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

One of two salivary glands in the neck, located in the space bound by the two bellies of the digastric muscle and the angle of the mandible. It discharges through the submandibular duct. The secretory units are predominantly serous although a few mucous alveoli, some with serous demilunes, occur. (Stedman, 25th ed)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Submandibular Gland" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Submandibular Gland" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 43 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1999 and 2012 and 2016 and 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.