Definition of Pilorus
||Py*lo"rus (?), n.; pl.
Pylori (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?; pylorus, gate keeper;
&?; a gate + &?; watcher, guardian.] (Anat.)
(a) The opening from the stomach into the
intestine. (b) A posterior division of the
stomach in some invertebrates.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (anatomy) The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum.
- A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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