| 单词 | pylorus |
| 释义 | ‖ pylorus Anat.|paɪˈlɔərəs|
[Late L. pylōrus the lower orifice of the stomach (Cæl. Aurel. 5th c.), a. Gr. πυλωρός, πυλουρός gatekeeper, porter, f. πύλη gate + οὖρος watcher, warder.]
The opening from the stomach into the duodenum, which is guarded by a strong sphincter muscle; also, that part of the stomach where it is situated.
1615Crooke Body of Man iii. v. (1631) 105 The guts are continued with the stomack at the right Orifice called the Pylorus. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 394 Its superior orifice, called also the cardiac, is on the left, and the inferior or pylorus, on the right side of this organ. 1808Barclay Muscular Motions 543 The pylorus opens into the intestine. 1875C. C. Blake Zool. 198 At the pylorus there is an annular membranous valve, near which the gall-duct opens.
b. An analogous part in invertebrates; e.g. the posterior opening of the stomach in insects; also, the valvular structure which separates the gastric from the somatic cavity in the siphonophorous hydrozoans (the pyloric valve of Huxley).
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xl. 99 The stomach... At its posterior end it terminates in the pylorus, a fleshy ring or sphincter formed of annular muscular fibres. |
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