Self-assessment Questions

19 The salivary glands

• 1. What type of fluid is secreted by the parotid glands?

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  Serous saliva.

• 2. What type of fluid is secreted by the sublingual glands?

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  Mucous product.

• 3. What type of fluid is secreted by the submandibular gland?

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  The saliva secreted is seromucus.

• 4. How does the parotid gland open into the mouth?

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  Via a long duct called the Stensen's duct opening adjacent to the second upper molar tooth.

• 5. Via which duct does the parotid gland open into the mouth?

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  Via Stensen's duct.

• 6. Where does Stensen’s duct open into the mouth?

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  Adjacent to the second upper molar tooth.

• 7. How does the submandibular duct communicate with the mouth?

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  Wharton’s duct opens on the floor of the mouth through a papilla at the base of the frenulum of the tongue.

• 8. Via which duct does the submandibular gland enter the mouth?

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  Via Wharton’s duct.

• 9. Where does Wharton’s duct enter the mouth?

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  Via a papilla at the base of the frenulum of the tongue.

• 10. How does the sublingual gland communicate with the mouth?

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  The sublingual gland’s mucus secretion drains by a series of very short ducts into the floor of the mouth.

• 11. What is Wharton’s duct?

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  This is the duct by which the submandibular gland communicates with the mouth.

• 12. What are the two surgical conditions of the salivary glands?

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  The two principal surgical conditions of the salivary glands are inflammation, with or without calculus, and neoplasm.

• 13. What are the five most common aetiologies of inflammation of the salivary glands?

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  (1) Calculus. (2) Chronic recurrent sialadenitis. (3) Acute bacterial infection. (4) Mumps. (5) Mikulicz’s syndrome.