Sublingual fossa
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The sublingual fovea (or sublingual fossa) is a fovea in the
mandible In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin ''mandibula'', 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla). The jawbone i ...
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sublingual gland The sublingual gland (''glandula sublingualis'') is a seromucous polystomatic exocrine gland. Located underneath the oral diaphragm (''diaphragma oris''), the sublingual gland is the smallest and most diffuse of the three major salivary glands of ...
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External links

* http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/part_8/chapter_42.html * http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/figures/chapter_42/42-21.HTM * http://zemlin.shs.uiuc.edu/Skull/slide-Pages/15.htm Bones of the head and neck {{Anatomy-stub