Wharton’s duct

A duct which takes saliva into the mouth from the salivary glands under the lower jaw [After Thomas Wharton (1614-73), English physician and anatomist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK].


The secretory duct of the submandibular salivary gland.


The channel from the salivary gland located under the lower jaw that transports saliva into the mouth.


 


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