pylor-, pyloro-, pylori-
(Greek: gatekeeper; lower gastric orifice through which the contents of the stomach enter the duodenum)
gastropylorectomy
Excision of the pylorus (opening in a vertebrate from the stomach into the intestine).
hemipylorectomy
Excision of half of the pylorus.
The pylorus is a thick muscular ring (sphincter) surrounding the outlet of the stomach into the duodenum.
It closes to prevent unduly large pieces of food from leaving, thus enabling stomach acid and enzymes to break them down further.
juxtapyloric
Near or around the pylorus or the pyloric part of the stomach; also, peripyloric.
pylorectomy
pylorogastrectomy
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube":
alveolo-;
antro-;
anu-;
celo-;
coelio-;
concho-;
fenestra-;
hernio-;
hiat-;
meato-;
ora-;
parieto-;
poro-;
pyl-, pyle-;
sphinctero-;
splanchn-;
stomato-;
syringo-;
uretero-;
urethro-;
vagino-;
ventricul-.
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