Citations:pyloric

English citations of pyloric

• a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, chapter 2, in A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:

  But since the attempted arrest and the accident, he had been bloating for almost no reason at all, his pyloric valve snapping shut indiscriminately and filling his stomach with trapped gas, gas which had character and being and resented its confinement. He wondered whether his pyloric valve might be trying, Cassandralike, to tell him something.

• a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:

  Some tissue has perhaps grown over my pyloric valve, sealing it forever.