pylorus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πυλωρός (pulōrós, “gatekeeper”).

pylorus (plural pylori or pyloruses)

1. (anatomy, biology) In vertebrates, including humans, a zone at the lower end of the stomach that leads to and opens into the duodenum.
2. A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.

• (stomach part that opens into the duodenum): pyloric sphincter

• pyloric
• pyloro-

• pylorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek πυλωρός (pulōrós).

pylōrus m (genitive pylōrī); second declension

1. The lower orifice of the stomach.

Second-declension noun.

• “pylorus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pylorus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pylorus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly