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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A ring of smooth muscle fibers around the opening of the stomach into the duodenum.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy Muscular valve connecting the stomach to the duodenum and regulating flow of materials out of the stomach.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the sphincter muscle of the pylorus that separates the stomach from the duodenum

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  • “Emetine creates nausea within five to eight minutes; pilocarpine contracts the pyloric sphincter and inhibits the emptying of the stomach into the duodenum; and ephedrine controls blood pressure fluctuations.”

    Simon & Schuster: Alcohol and The Addictive Brain

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  1. sphincter
  1. sphincter muscle
  1. anatomical sphincter

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  1. pyloric stenosis
  1. chyme
  1. valve

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