Crossword clues for pylorus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pylorus \Py*lo"rus\, n.; pl. Pylori. [L., fr. Gr. ? pylorus, gate keeper; ? a gate + ? watcher, guardian.] (Anat.)
The opening from the stomach into the intestine.
A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum. 2 A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.
WordNet
n. a small circular opening between the stomach and the duodenum
[also: pylori (pl)]
Wikipedia
The pylorus ( or ), or pyloric part, connects the stomach to the duodenum. The pylorus is considered as having two parts, the pyloric antrum (opening to the body of the stomach) and the pyloric canal (opening to the duodenum). The pyloric canal ends as the pyloric orifice, which marks the junction between the stomach and the duodenum. The orifice is surrounded by a sphincter, a band of muscle, called the pyloric sphincter.
The word pylorus comes from the Greek πυλωρός, "gate guard".
Usage examples of "pylorus".
Heineke and Mikulicz, and is designed to remove the mechanic obstruction in cicatricial stenoses of the pylorus, at the same time creating a new pylorus.
The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.
Occasional manifestations of its presence had been exhibited for some years, but his usual health always returned after every attack, and its fatal nature was not suspected, although Napoleon himself had several times said that he should die of a scirrhus in the pylorus, the disease which killed his father, and which the physicians of Montpelier declared would be hereditary in his family.
There is a possibility that some of these cases of Hippocrates were instances of pyloric carcinoma or of stenosis of the pylorus.
Heineke and Mikulicz, and is designed to remove the mechanic obstruction in cicatricial stenoses of the pylorus, at the same time creating a new pylorus.
The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.
They explained that the human intestine was too long, and that nothing could make a child of Adam healthy except short circuiting the pylorus by cutting a length out of the lower intestine and fastening it directly to the stomach.