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 ...

for the

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 ...

References

Additional Images

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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