Salivary Definition

Salivary Sentence Examples

• The salivary glands are the modified nephridia of the segment of the oral papillae.

• Of the salivary glands the parotid is by far the largest, elongated in the vertical direction, and narrower in the middle than at either end.

• They enclose the jaws (j), mouth (M), and opening of the salivary glands (o.·), and so give rise to the buccal cavity.

• The jaw somite also disappears; the oral papilla somite forms ventrally the salivary glands, which are thus serially homologous with nephridia.

• In 1898 it was conclusively shown in Italy that if a mosquito E of the Anopheles variety bites a person suffering from malaria, and is kept long enough for the parasite to develop in the salivary gland, and is then allowed to bite a healthy person, the latter will in due time develop malaria.