pylorus

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• pyloric
• pyloro-

Translations

opening between the stomach and duodenum

• Bulgarian: пилор m (pilor)
• Catalan: pílor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vrátník (cs) m
• Finnish: mahanportti (fi), pylorus (fi)
• French: pylore (fr) m
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• Greek:

  Ancient: πυλωρός m (pulōrós)

• Hungarian: gyomorkapu
• Japanese: 幽門 (ja) (ゆうもん, yūmon)
• Polish: odźwiernik m
• Portuguese: piloro m
• Russian: привратник желудка m (privratnik želudka)
• Spanish: píloro (es) m

See also

• pylorus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πυλωρός (pulōrós).

Noun

pylōrus m (genitive pylōrī); second declension

1. The lower orifice of the stomach.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pylōrus	pylōrī
Genitive	pylōrī	pylōrōrum
Dative	pylōrō	pylōrīs
Accusative	pylōrum	pylōrōs
Ablative	pylōrō	pylōrīs
Vocative	pylōre	pylōrī

References

• “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