Definition of Pyloric

1. Adjective. Relating to or near the pylorus.

Partainyms: Pylorus
Derivative terms: Pylorus

Definition of Pyloric

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

Definition of Pyloric

1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or relating to the pylorus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pyloric

1. pylorus [adj] - See also: pylorus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyloric

pyknoses
pyknosis
pyknotic
pykrete
pyla
pylae
pylagore
pylagores
pylangia
pylangium
pyllour
pylon
pylonlike
pylons
pylori
pyloric (current term)
pyloric sphincter
pyloric sphincters
pyloric stenosis
pyloric valve
pyloric vein
pyloroplasty
pylorus
pyloruses
pyn
pyne
pyned
pynes
pyning
pynoun

Literary usage of Pyloric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"May not the congenital pyloric stenosis now so frequently observed in infants be a ... Scudder (3) has shown that the pyloric tumor in infants does not ..."

2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"pyloric constriction, and examine the pyloric orifice and the pyloric canal. ... pyloric Orifice and pyloric Canal.—The extremity of the pyloric canal ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"pyloric Exclusion.—LEWISOHN (Surg., Gynec. and Obst., 1916, xxii) says the vast majority of surgeons agree that pyloric exclusion ought to be added to ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"On looking into the pyloric end of the stomach, the mucous membrane is found ... At the pyloric end, they are more thickly distributed, and continuous with ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"pyloric glands. At the pyloric end of the stomach the glands are much less closely ... A typical pyloric gland possesses a mouth which is much longer and ..."

6. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"MURRAY H. BASS MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ATROPIN IN THE TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL pyloric STENOSIS THE object of this report is to record several cases of ..."

7. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"Thus was obtained a tube whose walls were constituted by pyloric mucous membrane and which opened on the external surface of the body. ..."

8. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"Thus was obtained a tube whose walls were constituted by pyloric mucous membrane and which opened on the external surface of the body. ..."

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