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THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 



chain of from three to six nodes, resting on the submaxillary (salivary) gland, 

 along the inferior border of the mandible. They lie usually on the submaxillary 

 gland, but may extend from the insertion of the anterior belly of the digastric to 



Fig. 555. — The Lymphatics of the Head and Neck. (After Toldt, "Atlas of Human 

 Anatomy," Rebman, London and New York.) 



Occipital lymph-nodes 

 Posterior auricular lymph-nodes 



Superficial cervical lymph-nodes l'^ T^v 



^A 





•/su 



bmaxillary lymph-nodes 



Axillary lymph -node 



Axillary fascia 



the angle of the jaw. 'J^ioy arc about the size of a pea, and the largest is near the 

 point where the external maxillary (facial) artery crosses the mandible. The sub- 

 maxillary nodes, together with the next group, the facial, drain a complex area, 



