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Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle.

In certain exceptional cases the disease affects the submaxillary glands alone.

During the season of love, a musky odour is emitted by the submaxillary glands of the crocodile, and pervades their haunts.48 Ophidia.—I have little to say about Snakes.

The salivary apparatus is developed much in the same manner as in that genus, but the duct of the submaxillary gland has no reservoir.

Not long before, Wharton, an English observer, had demonstrated the existence of a canal leading from the submaxillary gland into the mouth.