oral gland

Gland of the epithelium lining the oral cavity. The most common are the salivary glands. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the oral gland is

Gland of the epithelium lining the oral cavity. The most common are the salivary glands. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the oral gland is

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

What the oral gland connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of digestive system, digestive tract and mouth.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the oral 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 buccal gland, gland of oral opening, gland of oral region, mouth gland, oral cavity gland and oral region gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010047, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: digestive system, digestive tract and mouth.
• A kind of: exocrine gland, gland and organ.
• subtype: gland of tongue and saliva-secreting gland.

Questions

Where is the oral gland?

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

What does the oral gland connect to?

Part of: digestive system, digestive tract and mouth.

Is the oral 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.