palatine gland in dogs

The palatine glands form a continuous layer on its posterior surface and around the uvula. They are primarily mucous secreting glands, as opposed to serous or mixed secreting glands. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the palatine gland is

The palatine glands form a continuous layer on its posterior surface and around the uvula. They are primarily mucous secreting glands, as opposed to serous or mixed secreting glands. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the palatine gland is

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the palatine gland connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity and head.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the palatine gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as palatine glands set, palatine mucuous gland, palatine salivary gland and salivary palatine gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002447, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the palatine gland?

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the palatine gland connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity and head.

Is the palatine gland the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.