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Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head – The New York Times
They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.
Puzzled by the images, they dissected tissue from two cadavers and found that the glands bore similarities to known salivary glands that sit below the tongue. The new glands were also hooked up to large draining ducts a hint that they were funneling fluid from one place to another.
Its not completely clear how the glands eluded anatomists. But the location is not very accessible, and you need very sensitive imaging to detect it, said Dr. Wouter Vogel, a radiation oncologist at the Netherlands C…
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