major salivary gland

One of the three largest glands of the oral cavity that secrete most of the saliva, including the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the major salivary gland is

One of the three largest glands of the oral cavity that secrete most of the saliva, including the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the major salivary gland is

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the major salivary gland connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of material anatomical entity.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the major salivary 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.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001829, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: material anatomical entity.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and saliva-secreting gland.
• subtype: parotid gland, sublingual gland and submandibular gland.

Questions

Where is the major salivary gland?

It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the major salivary gland connect to?

Part of: material anatomical entity.

Is the major salivary gland the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.