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pylorus

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The stomach tissue region surrounding and controlling the distal outlet of the stomach, which opens into the duodenum. [ MP:0010785 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]

Synonyms: pars pylorica gastricae, stomach pyloric region, pars pylorica, pyloric part of stomach, pyloric region

Term info

database cross reference
  • NCIT:C12260
  • EHDAA:4860
  • FMA:14581
  • UMLS:C0034196 (ncithesaurus:Pylorus)
  • VHOG:0000420
  • MESH:D011708
  • MA:0002560
  • GAID:333
  • SCTID:362143006
  • BTO:0001146
  • Wikipedia:Pylorus
  • EHDAA2:0001580
  • EMAPA:17631
  • galen:Pylorus
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

UBPROP 0000001

The orifice which allows the passage from the stomach into the intestine. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000003

Although all vertebrates have a digestive tract and accessory glands, various parts of this system are not necessarily homologous, analogous, or even present in all species. Therefore, broad comparisons can be best made under the listings of headgut, foregut, midgut, pancreas and biliary system, hindgut.[uncertain][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000007

pyloric

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Gray1046.svg

editor note

We follow Kardong in defining stomach regions by glands

has related synonym

valvula pylori

id

UBERON:0001166

prefLabel

Pylorus, pylorus