Associations to the word «Pylorus»

Wiktionary

PYLORUS, noun. (anatomy) The opening in a vertebrate, including humans, at the lower end of the stomach that opens into the duodenum.
PYLORUS, noun. A muscular or myovascular structure that controls the opening of an orifice or lumen of an organ.

Dictionary definition

PYLORUS, noun. A small circular opening between the stomach and the duodenum.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats