Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The passage at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the early church, a doorkeeper; an ostiary (which see).
- noun In anatomy: The orifice of communication between the stomach and the intestine, by which the contents of the stomach pass into the intestine.
- noun 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.
- noun The pyloric end or division of the stomach.
- noun In Hydrozoa, a valvular structure which separates the gastric from the somatic cavity in the siphonophorous hydrozoans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The opening from the stomach into the intestine.
- noun A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The opening in a
vertebrate , includinghumans , at the lower end of thestomach that opens into theduodenum . - noun A
muscular ormyovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice orlumen of an organ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small circular opening between the stomach and the duodenum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To the dictionary I went. and found that the pylorus is the opening from the stomach into the intestine.
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His pylorus is continually tickled by a mysterious flame but he is unable to recall anything.
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Warren and Marshall called it Helicobacter pylori—helicobacter for its appearance, and pylorus from the Latin for “gatekeeper,” for its location near the outlet valve of the stomach.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Warren and Marshall called it Helicobacter pylori—helicobacter for its appearance, and pylorus from the Latin for “gatekeeper,” for its location near the outlet valve of the stomach.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Warren and Marshall called it Helicobacter pylori—helicobacter for its appearance, and pylorus from the Latin for “gatekeeper,” for its location near the outlet valve of the stomach.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Diocles supposed the ground of this kind of melancholy to proceed from the inflammation of the pylorus, which is the nether mouth of the ventricle.
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The next intestine beyond the pylorus is the duodenum.
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The pylorus is a kind of chamber between the stomach and the intestines, so constructed that food once in it can ascend only with great difficulty.
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The other opening, by which the food leaves the stomach, and where the small intestine begins, is the pyloric orifice, and is guarded by a kind of valve, known as the pylorus, or gatekeeper.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The pylorus is a kind of chamber between the stomach and the intestines, so constructed that food once in it can ascend only with great difficulty.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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