Term Name: pylorus
Synonyms: pars pylorica, pars pylorica gastricae, pyloric part of stomach, pyloric region, stomach pyloric region, valvula pylori
Definition: the stomach tissue region surrounding and controlling the distal outlet of the stomach, which opens into the duodenum
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0001166]

Relationships
has parts: mucosa of pylorus pyloric antrum pyloric canal pyloric gastric gland pyloric region epithelium pyloric sphincter submucosa of pylorus torus pylorus
is a type of: zone of stomach