palatine gland

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 human body.

Where the palatine gland is

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the palatine gland connects to

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

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.

• Part of: head and material anatomical entity.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, minor salivary gland and mucous gland.

Questions

Where is the palatine gland?

It sits in the head, within the digestive system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the palatine gland connect to?

Part of: head and material anatomical entity.

Is the palatine 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.