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What are the locations of the major salivary glands of the human and those of a fetal pig?
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The major salivary glands are located around the lower maxilla in both humans and fetal pigs. These are used to generate saliva.
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The major salivary glands are the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands. They secrete saliva into your mouth; the parotid through tubes that drain saliva, called salivary ducts, near your upper teeth, submandibular under your tongue, and the sublingual through many ducts in the floor of your mouth.
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How many Salivary Glands are there?
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Salivary glands in human body?
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What do glands look like in a man?
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Why is human parotid saliva hyposmolar?
Hyperosmolar means an abnormally increased amount of concentration of bodily fluids and this may be the case with the parotid salivary glands because of their function in lubricating the back of the mouth to assist with food transport to and through the esophagus, versus the front of the mouth, where saliva first comes into contact with the food to begin breaking it down and lubricating it. (Front of the mouth would be saliva from the Sublingual salivary glands and Submandibular salivary glands)
What are the differences between a fetal chick and a fetal human?
A fetal chick grows into a chicken, whereas a fetal human grows into a human.
Name one gland in human body which secretes digestive enzyme as well as hormone?
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