Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Submaxillary.
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- adjective Below the
mandible ;submaxillary
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Examples
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Botulinum toxin type A can be injected into the submandibular gland (below the floor of the mouth) and the parotid gland (behind the jaw).
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The early discovery that mouse submandibular glands synthesize and release large quantities of NGF into the saliva, that the synthesis of this protein molecule is under the control of testosterone and of thyroxine [101,102] and that the NGF protein content is about ten-fold higher in male than in female mice, remained for about three decades a puzzling and unexplained finding.
Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later 1986
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If chance brought to our attention the unforeseeable presence of two nerve growth promoting sources, mouse sarcomas and snake venom, the subsequent finding that mouse submandibular salivary gland extract added in
Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later 1986
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The saliva comes from the partoid, submandibular, and the submaxillary.
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But some cells, such as the submandibular ganglia, are difficult to impale for intracellular recordings.
Science Blog BJS 2010
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- Animal handling experience, intravenous, intra-peritoneal, supra-orbital and sub-cutaneous dosing, bleeding (retro-orbital, submandibular and cardiac puncture)/surgical skills/tissue procurement and processing, necropsy, pathology and histology is necessary.
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- Animal handling experience, intravenous, intra-peritoneal, supra-orbital and sub-cutaneous dosing, bleeding (retro-orbital, submandibular and cardiac puncture)/surgical skills/tissue procurement and processing, necropsy, pathology and histology is necessary.
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The saliva comes from the partoid, submandibular, and the submaxillary.
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Ninety percent of stones develop in the submandibular glands, and the other 10 percent develop in the parotid glands.
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But some cells, such as the submandibular ganglia, are difficult to impale for intracellular recordings.
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