SG8 



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It is long and narrow, flattened on both sides, and describes a slight 

 curve with the concavity turned upwards : a form which allows it to bo 

 studied, with regard to relations, on two faces, two borders, and two 

 extremities. 



By its external face, it responds to the internal pterygoid muscle, the 

 digastricus, the sterno-maxillaris tendon, and the oellulo-aponenrotio layer 

 separating it from the parotid. Its internal face, applied to the side of the 

 larynx, responds, superiorly, to the guttural pouch, to the carotid art. TV. 

 and to the nerves which accompany that vessel in the upper part of th>- 

 neck. 



The superior border, thin and concave, is margined by the middle part of 

 the digastricus. The inferior, thick and concave, is in contact with the 

 glosso-facial vein. 



The posterior extremity is maintained beneath the transverse process of 



Fig. 173. 



MAXII.I.AKV AMI M l;I.IMi|-AI, <;l \ 



U, Maxillary gland ; 6, Wharton's duct ; T, Snblingual 



the atlas, by an extremely loose and abundant cellular tissue; the anterior is 

 insinuated between the internal ptorygoid mid the thyro-hyoideus muscle. 



Vessels and nerves. The blood is distributed to the maxillary gland by 

 various small innominate <i,-/< ,/'.-, like tlio.se of the parotid gland, and which 

 are most frequently derived from the external carotid and the glosso-facial. 

 The nerves are principally furnished by the rnrntiiJ j>/' 



