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Pylorus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The passage at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum.

n. A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

n. A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In the early church, a doorkeeper; an ostiary (which see).

n. In anatomy: The orifice of communication between the stomach and the intestine, by which the contents of the stomach pass into the intestine.

n. The fold of mucous membrane, containing muscular fibers, which guards the pyloric orifice, or other contrivance for retarding or opposing the passage of food from the stomach into the intestine.

n. The pyloric end or division of the stomach.

n. In Hydrozoa, a valvular structure which separates the gastric from the somatic cavity in the siphonophorous hydrozoans.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a small circular opening between the stomach and the duodenum

Word Usage

"To the dictionary I went. and found that the pylorus is the opening from the stomach into the intestine."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

orifice porta opening

Cross Reference

sphincter pylori antrum pylori

Variant

pylori

Form

pyloric

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pyloric sphincter

Same Context

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