Translation for 'salivary gland' from English to Finnish

salivary gland

sylkirauhanen {noun} [Glandula salivaria]anat.

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pituitary gland

aivolisäke {noun} [Glandula pituitaria]anat.

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prostate gland

eturauhanen {noun}anat.lääzool.T

sweat gland

hikirauhanen {noun} [glandula sudorifera]anat.

• Graft versus host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation may manifest as dry mouth and many small mucoceles. Salivary gland tumours may occur, including mucoepidermoid carcinoma, a malignant growth.
• The teeth of the radula are lubricated by the mucus of the salivary gland, just above the radula. Food particles are trapped into this sticky mucus, smoothing the progress of food into the esophagus.
• The glossopharyngeal nerve has parasympathetic fibers that innervate the parotid salivary gland.
• Bridges' best-known contribution among "Drosophila" researchers is his observation and documentation of the polytene chromosomes found in larval salivary gland cells.
• The pancreas and salivary gland make amylase (alpha amylase) to hydrolyse dietary starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides which are converted by other enzymes to glucose to supply the body with energy.

• 7 ml/min or less is considered to be abnormally low flow rates indicative of salivary gland hypofunction.
• In 2010, he was diagnosed with cancer of a salivary gland and had lymph nodes and tumors from the gland removed.
• They have a mixture of toxic digestive juices, some of which are manufactured by symbiotic algae, which they eject from their salivary glands onto their captured prey held in their mouths.