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Pylorus   Listen
noun
Pylorus  n.  (pl. pylori)  (Anat.)
(a)
The opening from the stomach into the intestine.
(b)
A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.






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"Pylorus" Quotes from Famous Books



... and mother very much, and this boy wishes to go to the river to catch some fish," one can easily remember all these words after one reading. But if I say, "The stomach in all the Salmonidae is syphonal and at the pylorus are fifteen to two hundred comparatively large pyloric coeca"; although this sentence is shorter, one finds it more difficult to remember, and the main reason is that the words are not ...
— The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners • William Henry Pyle

... somewhat difficult to obtain; unless where some other more mortal disease exists. In one, scirrhus of the pylorus was found; the stomach greatly enlarged; the small intestines contracted, red outside and gray within. (Where was the redness situated; in the peritoneal or the muscular coat? We must guess the latter.) The stomach was pale gray, and thickened. The large intestines ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various



Words linked to "Pylorus" :   pyloric, musculus sphincter pylori, orifice, pyloric sphincter, opening, porta



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