submandibular gland

Either of the paired compound tubuloalveolar (aka tubuloacinar) major salivary glands composed of both serous and mucous secretory cells and situated beneath the mandible. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the submandibular gland is

Either of the paired compound tubuloalveolar (aka tubuloacinar) major salivary glands composed of both serous and mucous secretory cells and situated beneath the mandible. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the submandibular gland is

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

What the submandibular gland connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of lower jaw region.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the submandibular 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 mandibular gland, mandibular salivary gland, submandibular salivary gland, glandula submandibularis, maxillary 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:0001736, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: lower jaw region.
• A kind of: major salivary gland.
• contains: epithelium of submandibular gland, mesenchyme of submandibular gland, submandibular duct and submandibular gland ducto-acinar unit.
• contributes to morphology of: submandibular duct.

Questions

Where is the submandibular gland?

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

What does the submandibular gland connect to?

Part of: lower jaw region.

Is the submandibular 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.