Ebner's glands
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Ebner's glands are exocrine glands found in the mouth. More specifically, they are serous salivary glands which reside within the moats surrounding the circumvallate papillae in the posterior one-third of the tongue, anterior to the terminal sulcus.
It secretes lingual lipase.[1]
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- g_06/12391354 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- synd/2602 at Who Named It
- Histology at BU 09503loa
- Histology at OU 126_05
- Dental histology at usc.edu
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