Major salivary glands
Glandulae salivariae majores
Definition
The major salivary glands are three large pairs of salivary glands that communicate with the mouth, and pour their secretion into its cavity; they are the parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
