submaxillary
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of submaxillary
Example Sentences
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In certain exceptional cases the disease affects the submaxillary glands alone.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
During the breeding-season their anal scent-glands are in active function;51 and so it is with the same glands in lizards, and as we have seen with the submaxillary glands of crocodiles.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
The submaxillary lymphatic glands are inflamed and enlarged, and may even go on to suppuration and ulceration.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The salivary apparatus is developed much in the same manner as in that genus, but the duct of the submaxillary gland has no reservoir.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
The lymph vessels pass to the parotid, occipital, mastoid, and submaxillary groups of glands, the different areas of drainage being ill-defined.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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