minor salivary gland

One of the smaller, largely mucus-secreting, exocrine glands of the oral cavity, consisting of the labial, buccal, molar, lingual, and palatine glands[MP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the minor salivary gland is

One of the smaller, largely mucus-secreting, exocrine glands of the oral cavity, consisting of the labial, buccal, molar, lingual, and palatine glands[MP]. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the minor salivary gland is

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

What the minor salivary gland connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of mouth mucosa and oral opening.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the minor 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:0001830, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: mouth mucosa and oral opening.
• A kind of: lamina propria and saliva-secreting gland.
• subtype: anterior lingual gland, labial gland, palatine gland and Weber's gland.

Questions

Where is the minor salivary gland?

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

What does the minor salivary gland connect to?

Part of: mouth mucosa and oral opening.

Is the minor 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.