sublingual gland

The small mucin-producing salivary glands in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue, anterior to the submandibular gland. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sublingual gland is

The small mucin-producing salivary glands in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue, anterior to the submandibular gland. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the sublingual gland is

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the sublingual gland connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of major salivary gland.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: sublingual artery. Venous drainage: sublingual vein.

Also called

Also recorded as Rivinus' gland, ductus sublingualis, Rivinus gland, glandula sublingualis, sublingual salivary gland and submaxillary gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001832, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: major salivary gland.
• contains: epithelium of sublingual gland, mesenchyme of sublingual gland, sublingual duct and sublingual gland ducto-acinar unit.
• Supplied by: sublingual artery.
• contributes to morphology of: sublingual duct.
• Drained by: sublingual vein.

Questions

Where is the sublingual gland?

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the sublingual gland connect to?

A kind of: major salivary gland.

Is the sublingual 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.