sublingual gland
Anatomy and Zoology
noun
Either of a pair of small salivary glands located under the tongue, one on each side of the floor of the mouth.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. After post-classical Latin glandula sublingualis.
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