submandibular duct

The submandibular duct (Warton's duct) is long, meaning that saliva secretions must travel further before being discharged into the mouth.

These factors all promote slowing and stasis of saliva in the submandibular duct, making the formation of an obstruction with subsequent calcification more likely.

The submandibular duct (Wharton's duct, submaxillary duct) is one of the salivary ducts.

The largest of all, the sublingual duct (of Bartholin) joins the submandibular duct to drain through the sublingual caruncle.

One or more join to form the major sublingual duct (larger sublingual duct, duct of Bartholin), which opens into the submandibular duct.

Note, posteriorly, the lingual nerve is superior to the submandibular duct and a portion of the submandibular salivary gland protrudes into the space between the hyoglossus and mylohyoid muscles.

The most usual source of the mucin spillage is the sublingual salivary gland, but ranulas may also arise from the submandibular duct or the minor salivary glands in the floor of the mouth.

Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) was an English physician and anatomist best known for his descriptions of the submandibular duct (one of the salivary ducts) and Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord.

Laterally, in between the hyoglossus muscle and the mylohyoid muscle lay several important structures (from superior in inferior): sublingual gland, submandibular duct, lingual nerve, vena comitans of hypoglossal nerve, and the hypoglossal nerve.

Not to be confused with Wharton's duct (submandibular duct) Warthin's tumor or Warthin tumour, also known as papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum, monomorphic adenoma or adenolymphoma, is a type of benign tumor of the salivary glands.

Of the smaller sublingual ducts (ducts of Rivinus), some join the submandibular duct; others open separately into the mouth, on the elevated crest of mucous membrane (plica sublingualis), caused by the projection of the gland, on either side of the frenulum linguae.