parotid gland in dogs

The parotid gland is the largest of the salivary glands. It is found wrapped around the mandibular ramus, and it secretes saliva through Stensen's duct into the oral cavity, to facilitate mastication and swallowing. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the parotid gland is

The parotid gland is the largest of the salivary glands. It is found wrapped around the mandibular ramus, and it secretes saliva through Stensen's duct into the oral cavity, to facilitate mastication and swallowing. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the parotid 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 parotid gland connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of cheek and lower jaw region.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: transverse facial artery.

Also called

Also recorded as parotid and glandula parotidea. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001831, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cheek and lower jaw region.
• A kind of: major salivary gland, saliva-secreting gland and serous gland.
• contains: acinus of parotid gland and parotid main excretory duct.
• contributes to morphology of: parotid main excretory duct.
• originates from: parotidoauricular muscle.
• Supplied by: transverse facial artery.

Questions

Where is the parotid 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 parotid gland connect to?

Part of: cheek and lower jaw region.

Is the parotid 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.