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 information
- MA:0002560
- EHDAA2:0001580
- BTO:0001146
- GAID:333
- EMAPA:17631
- SCTID:362143006
- NCIT:C12260
- Wikipedia:Pylorus
- EHDAA:4860
- UMLS:C0034196 (ncithesaurus:Pylorus)
- galen:Pylorus
- MESH:D011708
- FMA:14581
- VHOG:0000420
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
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]
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]
Term relations
- zone of stomach and has part some pyloric antrum and has part some pyloric canal and has part some pyloric gastric gland